-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 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 | | 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 .. | | From the wine package | | "%description | This is an ALPHA release of Wine, the MS-Windows emulator. This is | still a developers release and many applications may still not work. | | This package consists of the emulator program for running windows | executables. | | Wine is often updated." | | I actually don't think this explains it much better for those without | much technical knowledge, and naming Wine "the MS-Windows emulator", | that's actually quite stupid. | Anyways the explanation from winehq is better and correct, and | probably not more confusing for a new user than the one from the wine | package | | | | Ben Reser wrote: | |> On Thu, Aug 22, 2002 at 01:42:57AM +0200, Philippe Coulonges wrote: |> |> |>> In my response, I mistaken your message and the one from Ben Reser. |>> Rereading it, it may look like you're the one that don't understand |>> the difference, but he is. |>> |> |> |> I most certianly *DO* understand the difference. But you're applying |> the term emulator to only processor emulation which is certainly a fine |> distinction that maybe hackers make, but the dictionary and common users |> do not make! And considering that for the most part Mandrake is for |> common users not hackers (though some of us use Mandrake) we should be |> using language common users understand not elitist hacker definitions. |> |> |> | | Anyone else think it might be beneficial to either include the words "wrapper" or "compatibility layer" in this description? These two come to my mind immediately whenever I think of WINE. As an added bonus for the "wrapper" description, many of the Windows gamers that started at least 2+ years ago are likely to be familiar with Glide or OpenGL wrappers. A lot of drivers just before that had buggy OpenGL support and some applications only supported the proprietary Glide API so these wrapper DLLs were a must to use many programs with the newer hardware. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iEYEARECAAYFAj1kSl4ACgkQUMkt1ZRwL1MgxgCcD6mtcHFqmOHx5i5/gky4poj+ BAcAn2JKoCowdOEYPzg4grMUbTNHPZGF =EaSN -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
