On Fri, 2003-08-01 at 05:42, Graham Watkins wrote: > Jose Carlos Silva wrote: > > > > Is it possible to run Windows programs on Mandrake 9.1 ??? > > > > If it's possible can you tell me how or point to some doc ??? > > > >
> There are ways: > > 1. Wine - you need a hacker's mentality for this one. Most Wino's > reckon that you should compile your own rather than use the rpm > that comes with your distro especially if you want printer > support. > Easier said than done in my experience. Wine is still > in development and probably always will be. I've got freecell > (big > deal!), Winamp (briefly and eratically), and Internet > Explorer to > work with it but that's all. From what I read on > Wine newsgroups and mailing lists, some people have had more > success. There is a new .tar.gz build of Wine released every > 10 minutes. This is not true when you are talking about Transgaming WineX. This is a special development branch of Wine that is being commercially developed for gamers. This program has made alot of progress and has been immensely successful in running such huge massive games as Morrowind, Battlefield 1942, Diablo 2, Max Payne, and many more others too numerous to mention here. With that success they have also started running applications. One example is Total Commander, which is an excellent plugin based file handling interface which I needed for some exotic file handling work. WineX allowed me to do that without resorting to use of a dual boot machine. WineX is making strides because they are gathering in revenue from their product which allows them to pay their programmers, and in so doing drive the development forward. In many ways, it has contributed to the stabilization of the Wine project. I strongly suggest you take a look at www.transgaming.com if you are interested in running windows games or applications. It's well worth the effort. Using WineX I've eliminated all my dual boot machines here except for one. LX -- ����������������������������������������������� Linux Mandrake 9.1 Kernel 2.4.21-0.13mdk "Filter That, Beach!" --Lanman, MDK Newbie List ������������������������������������������������
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