On Aug 3, 2006, at 6:11 PM, Jonathan Fletcher wrote: > And then there are the programs that are being developed that will > run Windows apps without Windows. Not THAT'S Nirvana, except of > course they're still Windows apps. > > <http://www.macworld.com/news/2006/06/30/crossover/index.php>
That's been a chimera among Linux developers for years, with several projects around to reverse engineer the Windows API. Wine [1] is the best known such project and the Darwine [2] port is already available for Mac OS X. I've not tried Darwine, but I have used Wine under Linux. It fails with most programs and even when it works, it's still quirky. Crossover Office [3], mentioned in the link given above, is a commercial fork of Wine. Cedega [4] is another. I'm gonna give Darwine a try this weekend because I'm curious how well it does. [1] <http://www.winehq.com/> [2] <http://darwine.opendarwin.org/> [3] <http://www.codeweavers.com/> [4] <http://www.transgaming.com> -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: smime.p7s Type: application/pkcs7-signature Size: 2398 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://www.math.louisville.edu/pipermail/macgroup/attachments/20060803/a5a92d72/attachment.bin
