Re: [CentOS] A couple questions about Wine

2009-09-01 Thread Mike A. Harris
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Ron Blizzard wrote: VirtualBox works great but, since I only really use one Windows program (an older, specialized word processor called Movie Magic Screenwriter), I'm thinking of using Wine to run it in CentOS and getting rid of the Windows

Re: [CentOS] A couple questions about Wine

2009-08-31 Thread Ron Blizzard
On Sun, Aug 30, 2009 at 9:28 PM, Christopher Chanchristopher.c...@bradbury.edu.hk wrote: Security...no...performance...is that with regards to the rest of the os or the program or in comparison with having Windows in a sandbox like Virtualbox? Good. I wanted to make sure I wasn't introducing

Re: [CentOS] A couple questions about Wine

2009-08-31 Thread Lanny Marcus
On Sun, Aug 30, 2009 at 2:58 PM, Ron Blizzardrb4cen...@gmail.com wrote: VirtualBox works great but, since I only really use one Windows program (an older, specialized word processor called Movie Magic Screenwriter), I'm thinking of using Wine to run it in CentOS and getting rid of the Windows

Re: [CentOS] A couple questions about Wine

2009-08-31 Thread Ron Blizzard
On Mon, Aug 31, 2009 at 4:46 PM, Lanny Marcuslmmailingli...@gmail.com wrote: FWIW, Google's Picasa for Linux runs on a Google customized version of WINE. I haven' seen any issues with Picasa on CentOS 5.3 (32 bit). YMMV I've never used it, but I'm glad it works well. I haven't had time to try

[CentOS] A couple questions about Wine

2009-08-30 Thread Ron Blizzard
VirtualBox works great but, since I only really use one Windows program (an older, specialized word processor called Movie Magic Screenwriter), I'm thinking of using Wine to run it in CentOS and getting rid of the Windows virtual machine. But a couple questions: 1) If I run Wine, do I introduce

Re: [CentOS] A couple questions about Wine

2009-08-30 Thread Christopher Chan
Ron Blizzard wrote: VirtualBox works great but, since I only really use one Windows program (an older, specialized word processor called Movie Magic Screenwriter), I'm thinking of using Wine to run it in CentOS and getting rid of the Windows virtual machine. But a couple questions: 1) If I