On 5/11/05, Paul Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tuesday May 10 2005 10:12 pm, Ernst Doubt wrote: > > > Is it really a personal problem if I only really boot into windows > > regularly to update spyware, anti-vir and windows updates (so that > > I'll always have a working windows environment in the uncommon case > > that an XP vmware instance isn't sufficient)? > > Yeah, but honestly, how often does that happen? Why waste the drive > space on an OS better left to the history books and emulators anyway? > > Anything that doesn't run natively I can just run in Cedega instead > (sometimes more smoothly than the same program does running natively > in Windows on the same hardware[1]). What doesn't run is either 1) > Microsoft's invention and probably shouldn't run under Windows (but > does anyway, like PowerPoint and Outlook), 2) foolishly depends on a > Windows-specific bug that would be a bad idea to reproduce, or (most > rarely) 3) depends on Windows features not yet implemented in Cedega. > > My only real peeve with Cedega is that Transgaming is acting > *extremely* selfishly towards the Wine project. Without Wine, > Transgaming wouldn't have a leg to stand on today. Though this is > fairly consistent with the pompous, self-righteous > God's-gift-to-mankind attitude the CEO has in his writings on the > company website... > > [1] The only reason I know this is because I built my machine and a > week later my roommate came and bothered me at work at my last job to > have a machine identical to mine put together (I ended up building > his machine, too). > > -- > Paul Johnson > Email and Instant Messenger (Jabber): [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://ursine.ca/~baloo/ > > > I feel so left out! All my friends get spyware and viruses all the time, yet my woman and I get left out.
We should revive the linux spyware project to get The Gator to run under Wine or Cedega! -- Fredrik "Demonen" Vold /* - Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons, for you are crunchy and good with ketchup. */
