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Story: A little Wine with your Linux?
Posted by: Randy Ennis (Wednesday 8 October 2003, 1:16 PM)
Rather incomplete. It is true that just downloading and installing from the Wine project is not an undaunting project; however, there is a free version of Codeweavers Wine (no, it's not the tweaked commercial version that runs Office so well), that does run numerous Windows programs reasonably. Tweaking that installation is much easier than the base Wine installation in the article. I've run several heavy-duty commercial apps with that.
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Story: A little Wine with your Linux?
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Nice but your review is neither complete nor corre... Walter Thomas -
Talking about Wine and Codeweavers to run Windows... Anonymous
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I knew from the first line that this was going to... Anonymous
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err... CrossOver Ofiifce IS Wine. It's just a comm... Anonymous
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Rather incomplete. It is true that just downloadi... Randy Ennis -
What's with all this running Windows apps under Li... Anonymous
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Umm, crossover office uses wine. All codeweavers c... Tormak
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The real benefit of wine (and even better, wineX)... TIM
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I got to page two of the article then gave up.
I h... Chris Gibson
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The Wine developers seem to agree with the review;... Dan Kegel
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I generally don't know why people get so aggressiv... Marcin 'Rambo' Roguski
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although i understand the problems the author had,... Stefan
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Of course not! Abondon such stupid projects and u... Tuxic
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