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Story: A little Wine with your Linux?
Posted by: TIM (Wednesday 8 October 2003, 5:54 PM)
The real benefit of wine (and even better, wineX) is games. Neither VMware nor Win4Lin have Direct3D support. WineX rocks for games, Pretty much any game that anyone really wants to play runs at or near full speed under wineX and it's all for a very very low monthly subscription fee. If you want commercial apps for a specific reason you shouldn't be messing around with emulators and compatibility, you should be using the real thing. Games on the other hand...
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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
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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 -
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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