I have Wine-Doors installed on my MEPIS installation. What Wine-Doors gives to Wine is a lot of Windows libraries which improves the odds for the successful installation of other programs. Crossover Office and Cedega (for games) are commercial programs that also do the job. With Wine you need to track down these things on your won.
I think that you will be happy with your choice of MEPIS. I have used it since it first came out. It is the Debian equivalent of PCLOS, a small distro with great hardware detection, tools and good forums. It would be much farther ahead had it not switched to Ubuntu core and then back to Debian. This took us all for a roller coaster ride. Warren Woodford of MEPIS and Texstar/Bill Reynolds of PCLOS know each other. Best of luck! ----- Original Message ---- From: Gary <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [email protected] Sent: Wednesday, February 13, 2008 1:25:22 PM Subject: [LINUX_Newbies] Re: Newbie Questions: How can I run Windows programs in Linux?, and... --- In LINUX_Newbies@ yahoogroups. com, Roy Charles <dunamite_1@ ...> wrote: > > I see that Scott has given a detailed and fairly complete response. Most of what you need will be found there. > > I agree with Scott that 32-bit has many advantages. I could be wrong, but I don't think that PCLOS has a 64-bit version. Ubuntu, SimplyMEPIS and openSUSE have great 64-bit versions. Don't expect it to be as complete as 32-bit though. There are lots of things that you cannot get 64-bit software for. There are workarounds for many but not all. I don't think PCLOS has a 64-bit version either, maybe you just got a corrupted .iso or a bad CD burn? MD5sum-ing is your friend! Wine is available from the PCL-OS repository; I'm using it now on my desktop to run a few WinXP apps. All one has to to is run Synaptic (by default in the main panel of PCL-OS desktop, requires root password) and search for "wine" in the available packages. A number of other things will come up in the search, just select the checkbox for wine proper, and accept the dependencies it adds. > If you use Virtualbox, VMServer or KVM/qemu then you will need a Windows license in addition to the one in your dual boot setup. If you install Windows without a license this is copyright infringement. Wine requires no Windows license. Maybe not, but Wine will at least ask you to check a box affirming whether you do or not. Haven't tried *not* checking it, I have a fallow license# to use ;) > There is also a version of Wine called Wine-Doors which is more robust and simpler to use. I haven't been able to figure out how to get Wine-Doors to install *my* software. It only presents a (smallish) pre-selected list that you have to pick from, so it's pretty useless to me. If you have Wine installed under PCLOS, it associates *.exe files to Wine, so all you have to do is click the *.exe icon. You do need to run Wine itself before runnuing exe's directly to configure it. Just as a side note, when Wine asks you to define a "windows c" drive, if you have a dual-boot system, DON'T point it to your actual Windows-side C drive! Use a directory Linux-side, the default Wine set up is just fine. This keeps your Windows setups and your Wine "Windows" setups isolated from each other and clean. > Linux distros such as PCLOS and Ubuntu have excellent tools that automate this process. Just make sure that all data is backed up just in case. > > PCLOS is a good choice for laptops. It is fast and sleek and has great hardware detection. There are rare cases where it and other distros will not work properly due to proprietary hardware which manufacturers are reluctant to release info to open source developers. Laptops are more prone to this than desktop computers. Try the live CD first and make sure that everything works to your liking before you opt to install. > > Good luck! After trying PCLOS and a bunch of others on my dual-boot laptop, I ended up going with SimplyMEPIS 7.0 for that machine, better fit with my specific hardware (Compaq Presario V2000). 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