Posted by: Anonymous
[ip: 209.193.43.135]
on June 13, 2008 03:48 AM
Wine is not about OS adoption!!! It's about being able to run those win apps because you have too, or because there's no linux equivalent of a win app. Here are some examples.
I got orange box for christmas. I can purchase windoze or use wine. Need wine
I can pirate ms office and use it in wine, or i can use OOo. Don't need wine
OOo doesn't have all the features that ms office 2007 and i need those features for my homework/office work/business (this situation happens a lot). Need wine (office 2007 does run in wine)
There's also times wine can make running programs easier. Here's an example.
I have quake 2, quake 3, and quake 4 all have linux installers, but it's faster and easier to just install with the win installer and run the game through wine. In this case i ran quake 2 in wine but quake 3 and 4 through the linux installers. This situation doesn't matter what you use.
In the meantime ms devs will also perpetuate the cycle of windows apps.
In the meantime i am really happy about kde4, kde4 is big also since it's programs use a single code base for osx, win, and lin.
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Re: Finally, it's time for Wine
Posted by: Anonymous [ip: 209.193.43.135] on June 13, 2008 03:48 AMI got orange box for christmas. I can purchase windoze or use wine. Need wine
I can pirate ms office and use it in wine, or i can use OOo. Don't need wine
OOo doesn't have all the features that ms office 2007 and i need those features for my homework/office work/business (this situation happens a lot). Need wine (office 2007 does run in wine)
There's also times wine can make running programs easier. Here's an example.
I have quake 2, quake 3, and quake 4 all have linux installers, but it's faster and easier to just install with the win installer and run the game through wine. In this case i ran quake 2 in wine but quake 3 and 4 through the linux installers. This situation doesn't matter what you use.
In the meantime ms devs will also perpetuate the cycle of windows apps.
In the meantime i am really happy about kde4, kde4 is big also since it's programs use a single code base for osx, win, and lin.
There you have it big fud.
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