On Jan 18, 2008 1:06 PM, Tomas Kuliavas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Zimbra is commercial groupware suite. SquirrelMail is free webmail
application. You are suggesting to replace whole user's email system with
some proprietary locked product.
There's an (at least in name) FOSS version of Zimbra...
On 9/24/07, Stephan Rose [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
That reminds me, one of the things I personally would love to see Wine
support is Solidworks. It's about the only thing at work I still need to
boot into Windows for occasionally.
Same here.
Solidworks actually installs now, it didn't earlier
On 7/13/07, Victor [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Also Wine isn't just a library. (LGPL)
Nor is the LGPL a license exclusively for libraries.
--tim
On 4/6/07, Frank Russo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
As a WINE user, I find myself in a (seemingly) unique situation. I'll
do my best to explain my motivations, and what resources are at my
disposal. Basically, I would like to give money to the WINE project.
I find myself in a similar dilemma...
On 4/6/07, Dan Kegel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Lots of folks have thought about how to solve
the problem, but dealing with money is complicated.
It'd be better for you to donate time triaging bugs, IMHO.
( http://kegel.com/wine/qa/ )
Just reproduce one bugzilla entry a day for a week, and
On 3/20/07, Kai Blin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
http://code.google.com/soc/wine/about.html
Like that?
Yeah. That was me attempting something resembling humor. GSoC is
exactly what I meant.
--tim
On 3/20/07, Dan Kegel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
The problem that wine developers have with recipies
like the one you cite is that most of the steps in
the recipe are there to work around bugs in Wine.
...
That said, I'm certainly in favor of helping users,
as long as it's done 'right', for
Already looking at buying a new computer to play Supreme Commander
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supreme_commander), is there anything I
can do (including, but not limited to purchasing hardware) to help get
this game running under Wine? I can't promise miracles, but if I can
break down a few
On 2/11/07, Tom Wickline [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Fix the bugs in Wine and send your patches to wine-patches.
File bug reports pertaining to this game, as well as become a maintainer
for the game in our AppDB:
http://appdb.winehq.org/appview.php?iAppId=4051
Purchase a copy of CrossOver and
On 10/6/06, Vincent Povirk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On 10/5/06, Tim Schmidt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
An application you are running (Application Name) is attempting to
access a disk in a potentially unsafe way. Would you like it to
access a safe virtual disk instead?
Yes No
A dialog like
On 10/6/06, Kai Blin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Friday 06 October 2006 10:19, Tim Schmidt wrote:
Again, works for me. I believe the only part missing for this case is
the simulation. Of course, there's the added possibility that apps
will go mucking about with data other apps care about
On 10/5/06, Christoph Frick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
and its very unlikely, that a sane person would WINE allow writing
to the MBR (or close to it). right?
OK...
This discussion is veering off somewhat, but I believe it's heading in
a fairly constructive direction.
What we're talking about
On 10/5/06, Mike McCormack [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
UML has a COW (copy-on-write) layer [1]. If we had something like this,
conceivable we could allow Wine to read raw disks (or the COW file),
then write back to the COW file.
QEMU has nice support for several different COW and sparse
On 10/5/06, Christoph Frick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
the #2 folks are proficient enough with their systems to know what they
are doing. the #1 folks hope to get away from the world of #2 things
they are forced on the windows world when they change to unix.
Not nescessarily. I'm thinking
To clarify my thoughts, and throw this out there... Here's how I'm
imagining this working:
Assuming there's no problem intercepting the raw disk i/o attempts,
the first time an app attempts a raw disk access, Wine can throw a
popup (I know, I hate them too) with something like the following
On 10/5/06, Martin Owens [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I wonder if we can get the shockwave player working with the linux
version of linux via some kind of wine layer instead of installing
firefox for windows.
http://www.codeweavers.com/products/cxoffice/
If you'd like to duplicate effort...
On 10/3/06, Hiji [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Sun Microsystems can't be killed. Many of the world's infrastructure
literally relies on them (though, it's not quite evident from the end user
standpoint.) The only way they would go away is if they were bought out, and
then, the Sun name was
On 10/3/06, Robert Lunnon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Part 3 Applies, however it could be read as being permissible for the purpose
of implementing a compatible interface. IE for the purpose of making the copy
protection work under Wine. I think it would be much safer to make the
protection work
On 10/2/06, James Courtier-Dutton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
The easiest way round this is to simply recognise the executable with
the copy protection, and simply install a hook to catch the appropriate
file system or registry calls and divert them to a special handling
routine to satisfy the
On 10/2/06, Marcus Meissner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
We can't, this kind of circumvention is likely to be illegal in the US.
The relevant portion of the DMCA reads as follows:
(http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/F?c105:6:./temp/~c105bzNC4v:e11559:)
`(2) No person shall manufacture,
Wow... looks like Chris, and other members of that forum are
'actively hostile' to the Linux community. The difference in tone
between this thread and that, about the same topic, is incredible.
--tim
On 9/2/06, Roland Schama [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hello Alexandre,
Is your group affiliated with CodeWeavers? They claim to have a
wine product called Crossover Mac that will have a final release soon.
If you are not the same group, what are the differences?
From Wikipedia
On 6/30/06, William Knop [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
1) While I agree maintaining a staunch security policy is important,
that has nothing to do with autorun. Making the user browse to find
an executable is not security.
Yet again... when a user sticks an audio CD in his computer and gets
a
On 6/30/06, William Knop [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Yeah, then in that situation the user wouldn't run `wine --media-
autorun /mountpoint/autorun.inf` either. I fail to see your point.
Hey... If all you want to do is write a parser for autorun.inf files
and attach it to a command line switch,
On 6/30/06, William Knop [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Parsing a windows inf hardly belongs anywhere but wine.
Actually, Troy makes that point rather well in an earlier mail:
This is not true. The existing action-on-CD-insertion programs provided by the
desktop environment try to detect the
The Sony rootkit fiasco alone should be enough to end this conversation.
Period.
Say what you want about the theoretical integrity of the media, and
the user's security habits. The fact is that hundreds (possibly
thousands or millions) of _real_ people were infected by rootkits
because of
On 6/29/06, Chris [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
If you notice, Sony got into a lot of trouble over that. And the problem
wasn't autorun. The problem was that the disc installed the rootkit
anyway /even if the user said no/. The same exact thing would've happened if
the user had to browse the CD and
On 6/30/06, Chris [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
This sounds like you missed my point.
I think you're missing our points Chris...
it's not inherently detramental (since the user would be instructed to manually
do
what autorun does automatically
Yeah. The Sony rootkit users would have gladly
On 6/26/06, James Hawkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
You could just ask, Hey, what's the status of Wine on Intel Max OS
X?. No one has really stepped up to work on that aspect of Wine,
outside of Codeweavers, so there's not a whole lot of incentive to put
this information up. So if you're
On 4/25/06, Philip V. Neves [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I've been really looking at wine for the last couple of months or so.
Last little bit I've been helping by doing some testing and filing bug
reports. I must say the developers of this project have done an amazing
job. Its increadible how
Seems to me that symlinks provided by a distribution would be usefull
as a transitional measure only. Until applications eventually move
over to the new /dev locations. So...
Part of any application's perogerative is to deal with the platform(s)
it runs on. Wine makes some special allowances
Sounds like a good project to hack on occasionally while putting the
majority of effort into improving the current implementation. In
other words, some effort is warranted because of the benefits of
sharing code, however, wine can always transition to the new layout
after it has a complete and
Trusting perhaps, but not an over-reationist for sure. Has anyone approached
SpecObs Labs and asked for the code? Have they said no? This is all just
speculation and hardly worthy of a thread until such comes to pass. For a
company to (fairly) prominantely state on their product web page
TA 1.0 (fresh off the CD) also wouldn't start for me, however, after
installing the v3.1c patch (the last one ever released) it started up
just fine.
--tim
On 12/6/05, James Liggett [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I fired up Total Annihilation just yesterday with Wine 0.9.2 and it
was very slow. TA
Is Starcraft really that slow? How does this compare with using DGA?
I'm not too sure because its speed vaires. I've been testing
Starcraft this weekend and it has been plenty speedy. But I do
remember when trying to play it multiplayer a few months ago and was
burned when it ran slow.
What makes you say that?
What would need changing to efficiently accomodate more developpers?
I'm asking because I don't see a problem with the current organisation
but I may be missing something. If there are issues it's best to get
them out in the open so we can work on fixing them.
I was looking at a new (to me) video editor for Linux and noticed the
author had put together a rather nice system for tracking (and
presumably obliterating) his FIXME's. Here's the link:
http://diva.mdk.org.pl/2005/08/03/fix-the-fixme
Or, if you want to skip straight to the result, here's what
And just in case Ivan runs out, I have 50 more.
--tim
On Sun, 20 Feb 2005 11:54:32 +0100, Ivan Leo Puoti [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I'm offering a gmail invitation to any wine dev that wants one.
Private mail me for an invitation, I have enough invites for all.
Ivan.
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