> > > Huh? Wine is in main. Not non-free. > > > > > > BTW, you'll also need the libwine package to install wine. > > > > I believe that he means, wine would usually be most useful to run some > > -very- non-free programs. > > Yes, that is exactly what I menat sorry for the confusion, wine is > Free Software but it is used to run non-free software. This sort of > thing I do not recommend doing, call me crazy or better yet call me > a fan of GNU, an admirer of RMS, and most of all a strong supporter > of the Free Software movement.
<sigh> religion, smidgen, pigeon. I know RMS and he is a cool dude but this is *my* system, not his. > > Nonetheless, I have a *huge* mswin software collection, much of it shareware > > and freeware, and a few non MS licensed apps that could be useful, but I'm > > completely chicken about Unstable for the moment. > > Don't be chicken Again, it's my system, not yours. I actually depend on my laptop being in well behaved order for my work. I therefore treat it more carefully even than the desktop system I use for prepping the Linux Gazette work I do... since perl will run on anything, and everybody, even the Borg of Redmond, have web browsers, but what I need from my laptop is (1) reliability while amidst my consulting clients (2) a good place to keep some of my board meeting notes (3) a friendly system when all others fail. Given two out of 3 of these call for stability, I'm being -prudent- not chicken. If I need to apply something new to it, I test it on the backup image eating some of my desktop's disk space first. > unstable really is rather stable despite its name. My husband tracks unstable, and our experience does match yours. Aren't you lucky ;D > I would recommend it for any developer or hard core geek wanting to live > and the bleeding edge, There you go. Developer, kinda. Hard core geek, se' definite. Wants to slash myself on the bleeding edge, no. I keep bandaids in my purse, too. Sure, I play with raw stuff - on the desktop system. But I don't do "nightlies" either, unless a specific rev has been recommended to me. > with a desire to play with all the new toys. The ones that come with batteries installed, maybe ;P > You may not fit this category, unstable is not > for everyone, testing is a good compromise. In a couple of months I may go there, but for the moment, I'm not running anything that demands a glibc changeover to the new version. * Heather Stern * star@ many places...
