Is Wine Destined to be a Specialist's Toolkit? 23
Bryan Porter asks: "I've been using various Wine based products lately (ex. WineX, CrossOver, etc.), and have found several companies basing portions of the software on Wine (I believe Virtuoso 3.0 utilizes Wine to some extent). My question for the Slashdot community is, is Wine destined for specialization only? We've got well-working versions of Wine hacked into a cross-platform gaming system, hacked into cross-platform productivity systems, etc. Will we ever download just one Wine, or is the best solution a customized one?"
Wine Hacking (Score:2, Interesting)
Re:Wine Hacking (Score:1)
I'm not reying to start a flame war here, I am very well aware that others have got MSOffice etc. to work fine. The reason I tried it in the first place was in an attempt to get a Umax parallel-port scanner to work with Linux, since some sites linked to the SANE pages sort of indicated that it could be done.
All my a
Re:Wine Hacking (Score:1)
Me too! (Score:4, Funny)
I''''ve been using wine bast pruducts too1 And don't tell me I got uh prublem, cause I don't, see.
I kin handle it. So whayt if sometime I wake up onna sidewalk an don remember goin ta sleep? I kin sttop any time I wan.
Hell, I didnt start drinkin cept to take up the time tween the blue screen od death anfd the three fingger salute.
You wanna make sometin ov it? Alla shoqw you whooze boss1
wine for gaming (Score:3, Interesting)
Re:wine for gaming (Score:2)
Correct me if I'm wrong.
Re:wine for gaming (Score:2)
A portion of the drivers that relate to 3d gaming are in the kernel, thanks to dri [sourceforge.net].
According to the dri introduction:
libGL does handle most of the rendering pipeline in userspace, but all hardware access occurs though the kernel module.Re: (Score:1)
Re:wine for gaming (Score:1)
Re:wine for gaming (Score:1)
Re:wine for gaming (Score:1)
Multiple variations can be a strength (Score:5, Interesting)
People have special needs, and it is a good thing that software can be adapted for that. Now, as Wine is a compability layer, it is even more sensible than most other software to special needs in different environments. So don't expect the specialized variations to go away anytime soon.
Also, it is not necessarily a bad thing that there are many variations out there. As long as the improvements all trickle back to the common source everyone will reap the benefits eventually. (Now, older versions of Wine are not LGPL, but whatever.)
Wine performance is asymptotic (Score:5, Informative)
The companies exist because theres a huge market of running windows software on unices and wine isnt exactly there. Any company can invest in marketing and sell enough copies to pay for the marketing plus their salaries. The free software developers would much rather develop interesting stuff in native Linux/BSD at full speed, and port it everywhere.
Windows... (Score:5, Funny)
Too difficult (Score:2, Interesting)
Hello? (Score:2)
Is
Not an
Emulator
Configuration detailed needed (Score:1)
There are various things that need to be configured. Some of them I know best and they will never change between various wine versions (l
Afraid it is doomed to DOS-EMU's fate. (Score:2)
I'm afraid this is WINE's fate, especially since it was only recently protected by the LGPL. The commercial interests seem con
The wine common usability problem (Score:1)
European Air War - anyone got it working with WINE (Score:2)
I have tried to get European Air War working under WINE. It is possible I am just hopeless.
If I knew someone had done it I could and would try - tonight. I am rebuilding home machine after she said I think I know that person and tried to run the attachment - which I checked with an updated [specifically for this] virus checker).
Thanks In Advance