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Story: A little Wine with your Linux?

Posted by: Walter Thomas (Tuesday 7 October 2003, 3:53 PM)

Nice but your review is neither complete nor correct. Anything that can be run on Crossover Office can be run on Wine. Although with WINE you do need the technical insight to manually configure and enhance certain features. Comparing WINE to Crossover is akin to comparing Redhat 9 to the Linux Kernel. You can't make the comparison because one is not in competition with another. Rather, one (the linux kernel & WINE) is the respective basis for the others very existence (i.e. Redhat needs the Linux kernel and CrossOver requires the WINE API). So while I think it's cool you're keeping WINE in the public eye via this article I feel your article serves no purpose then to repeat what is already known.

That is CrossOver is an extension to WINE that allows people to more easily configure and run Windows apps on Linux. A more complete end-user package for the WINE API. However, with that being said it is kind of moronic to compare the two products. Another analogy can be made with Windows itself. Your comparison is akin to comparing Windows NT with the NT Command Console (CMD.EXE). As if one could even survive without the other.