VMWare is wonderful but is also VERY trying on a system. Also... sometimes
it isn't as "virtual" as "virtual machine" sounds. If your virtual machine
hangs it can do serious damage to the windows registry. Trust me I know ;)
----- Original Message -----
From: B. K. Barley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Saturday, May 27, 2000 11:41 PM
Subject: RE: [Cooker] [discuss] wine configuration
> Isn't the whole windows binaries/wine kinda pointless with VMWare around?
I
> know that it's a very expensive piece of software, but I've used it and it
> really did much better the wine. At least it did run all my apps (except
> those crucial to timing) albeit a little slow. When I get the money, I do
> intend on buying a copy of it.
>
> Bryan
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Graham Percival [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Friday, May 26, 2000 11:19 AM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: [Cooker] [discuss] wine configuration
>
>
> On Fri, May 26, 2000 at 08:04:07AM -0400, Gallagher wrote:
> > 1. Preconfigured Wine
> > 2. Associated Wine with .exe files in KDE/Gnome
> > 3. Graphical config for Wine
>
> This is something that should be done eventually (though I'm expecting it
to
> be
> hooked into the "support for other binaries" at the kernel level, rather
> than
> associations in file managers) but not in
> the very near future. The Wine group is currently discussing whether they
> can
> shoot for a version 1.0 and what needs to be done first; I don't think
that
> they expect to reach that by the end of the year. I think that Wine is
too
> volatile right now (not that it's a bad project; far from it.)
>
> --
> Graham Percival
>
