On Thu, Aug 22, 2002 at 02:06:10AM +0200, Per �yvind Karlsen wrote: > Mandrake is not _ONLY_ targeted at "newbies", and describing wine as an > emulator when it's not (WINE still stands for Wine Is Not an Emulator;) > will make "hackers" think of us as stupid;) > anyways, it's not harder than just grab the description from > winehq.com/about
I didn't say it was. > From winehq.com/about: > > "Wine is an implementation of the Windows Win32 and Win16 APIs on top of > X and Unix. Think of Wine as a Windows compatibility layer. Wine > provides both a development toolkit (Winelib) for porting Windows > sources to Unix and a program loader, allowing many unmodified Windows > 3.x/95/98/ME/NT/W2K/XP binaries to run under Intel Unixes. Wine works on > most popular Intel Unixes, including Linux <http://www.linux.org/>, > FreeBSD <http://www.freebsd.org/>, and Solaris > <http://www.sun.com/solaris/>. > > Wine does not require Microsoft Windows, as it is a completely > alternative implementation consisting of 100% Microsoft-free code, but > it can optionally use native system DLLs if they are available. Wine > comes with complete sources, documentation and examples and is freely > redistributable. (The licensing terms > <http://source.winehq.com/source/LICENSE>are the GNU Lesser General > Public License.)" > > This should explain it good enough that most linux users understand what > it's for, and if it's still not good enough it's just to explain it > better, but still, claiming that wine is an emulator, when it's not, > well... it's kinda .. So submit a patch to change the spec file and be doen with it. If you know enough to be looking at the spec you can submit a patch. That is a better description but not because it just doesn't call WINE an emulator. Because WINE is an emulator. -- Ben Reser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://ben.reser.org If your love has no hope of being welcomed do not voice it; for if it be silent it can endure, a guarded flame, within you. - The Wisdom of the Sands
