On Fri, Oct 3, 2008 at 2:21 PM, Ken Teh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Are they any problems running the wine emulator on SL5x? I recall wine > used to be part of RedHat's distributions. But, I dont see it in SL5x. Is > or was there a reason why it was left out? It appears to be part of the > EPEL repo which I am not familiar with. >
Wine was mostly in powertools and is not a program that is 'cheap' to support. That would be my guess why Red Hat Enterprise does not have it. EPEL is a repository where software from Fedora is compiled for EL-4/EL-5. It is not supported by RH beyond it scratches various peoples' itches. > One of my users wants it on a server. I'm reluctant to install it if it > will hang up the server. I've never used it myself. I've played around > with VMWare and while it works, there were the occasional hiccups. Which > is ok if it's your own machine. Not so good on a multi-user server. > I would not consider Wine to be server oriented software. Its more of running desktop applications and needs a lot of hand-holding for that. If its 'critical' for them, I would see if they can pay for the professional wine so you have someone to send support questions to. > I'd appreciate any advice. Thanks! > -- Stephen J Smoogen. -- BSD/GNU/Linux How far that little candle throws his beams! So shines a good deed in a naughty world. = Shakespeare. "The Merchant of Venice"
