Re: OFF TOPIC: Solaris x86, WABI and Linux.....

1999-05-07 Thread Adam Shand
Any one have any experience with using this. Is it worth installing on a 133 pentium? probably not. solaris is a pretty big memory pig and from what i hear wabi isn't all that lean either. That is question 2, has anyone ported any solaris software to linux? I like to use WABI and JAVA

OFF TOPIC: Solaris x86, WABI and Linux.....

1999-05-06 Thread Person, Roderick
Hey guy, I'm staring at a copy of solaris for intel arch, that includes the WABI cdrom. Any one have any experience with using this. Is it worth installing on a 133 pentium? I have found some softtware for solaris that I want to use but can't ge tit to run on linux. That is question 2, has

Re: wabi

1999-03-09 Thread Rick Macdonald
Craig T. Hancock wrote: Does anyone use wabi and if so please is it better than wine I bought wabi 2 years ago just to run Quicken 4.0. At the time I inquired about wine but it didn't seem ready enough. I couldn't risk years worth of financial data to it. Wabi has been pretty good; I haven't

wabi

1999-03-08 Thread Craig T. Hancock
Does anyone use wabi and if so please is it better than wine

RE: wabi

1999-03-08 Thread Shaleh
On 08-Mar-99 Craig T. Hancock wrote: Does anyone use wabi and if so please is it better than wine wabi was win 3.x only. It required a windows license (simialr to sheep shaver for the macs). It is now officially a dead program.

Re: Will Caldera's WABI run on a Debian system?

1996-11-26 Thread Ron Holt
[At the risk of being flamed for having a non-Debian discussion here...] Shaya Potter writes: What I remember reading was that WABI actually was able to run more windows apps if you installed windows and ran the apps through it, then if you would run the apps directly from WABI

Re: Will Caldera's WABI run on a Debian system?

1996-11-25 Thread Ron Holt
Rick Macdonald writes: Does anybody know if Caldera's WABI will run on a Debian system? Caldera's web page kind of says maybe. In short, yes, it does run. I've run Wabi 2.2 on Debian 1.1. The only serious problem I've found is that the default permissions on /dev/fd0 don't allow access

Re: Will Caldera's WABI run on a Debian system?

1996-11-25 Thread Ron Holt
been talking to? Ian Nandhra? He works for Caldera. I think WINE is a technically superior approach to WABI, and I hope the availability of WABI doesn't impede WINE's progress. Why? Wine's approach is quite similar to Wabi's. Anyway, we too would like to see Wine move forward. When it can

Re: Will Caldera's WABI run on a Debian system?

1996-11-25 Thread Bruce Perens
From: Ron Holt [EMAIL PROTECTED] Bruce Perens writes: Who have you been talking to? Ian Nandhra? He works for Caldera. Ian Phillips, if I remember correctly. I think WINE is a technically superior approach to WABI, and I hope the availability of WABI doesn't impede WINE's progress. Why

Re: Will Caldera's WABI run on a Debian system?

1996-11-25 Thread Ron Holt
Bruce Perens writes: From: Ron Holt [EMAIL PROTECTED] Bruce Perens writes: I think WINE is a technically superior approach to WABI, and I hope the availability of WABI doesn't impede WINE's progress. Why? Wine's approach is quite similar to Wabi's. I'd heard that WABI was usually

Re: Will Caldera's WABI run on a Debian system?

1996-11-24 Thread Mike Schmitz
On Fri, 22 Nov 1996, Rick Macdonald wrote: Mike Schmitz wrote: On Thu, 21 Nov 1996, Rick Macdonald wrote: Does anybody know if Caldera's WABI will run on a Debian system? Caldera's web page kind of says maybe. I'm tempted to pay the $200 just so I can run Quicken without

Re: Will Caldera's WABI run on a Debian system?

1996-11-24 Thread Mike Schmitz
On Sat, 23 Nov 1996, Rick Macdonald wrote: On Sat, 23 Nov 1996, Mike Schmitz wrote: Consider CBB. It will import quicken data and alerady runs under Linux natively. It lives at http://www2.me.umn.edu/~clolsen/cbb/cbb.html The URL doesn't seem to exist. Please check and let me

Re: Will Caldera's WABI run on a Debian system?

1996-11-24 Thread Carlo U. Segre
On Sat, 23 Nov 1996, Mike Schmitz wrote: On Fri, 22 Nov 1996, Rick Macdonald wrote: Mike Schmitz wrote: On Thu, 21 Nov 1996, Rick Macdonald wrote: Does anybody know if Caldera's WABI will run on a Debian system? Caldera's web page kind of says maybe. I'm tempted

Re: Will Caldera's WABI run on a Debian system?

1996-11-23 Thread Christoph Lameter
Rick Macdonald ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: : Does anybody know if Caldera's WABI will run on a Debian system? : Caldera's web page kind of says maybe. : : I'm tempted to pay the $200 just so I can run Quicken without : booting up DOS/Windows. : : I haven't checked for awhile, but I assume

Re: Will Caldera's WABI run on a Debian system?

1996-11-22 Thread Richard G. Roberto
On Thu, 21 Nov 1996, Rick Macdonald wrote: Does anybody know if Caldera's WABI will run on a Debian system? Caldera's web page kind of says maybe. I had a short correspndance with [EMAIL PROTECTED] and their position make sense. They can't guarentee in won't run on anything but CND

Re: Will Caldera's WABI run on a Debian system?

1996-11-22 Thread Mike Schmitz
On Thu, 21 Nov 1996, Rick Macdonald wrote: Does anybody know if Caldera's WABI will run on a Debian system? Caldera's web page kind of says maybe. I'm tempted to pay the $200 just so I can run Quicken without booting up DOS/Windows. I haven't checked for awhile, but I assume that WINE

Re: Will Caldera's WABI run on a Debian system?

1996-11-22 Thread Rick Macdonald
Mike Schmitz wrote: On Thu, 21 Nov 1996, Rick Macdonald wrote: Does anybody know if Caldera's WABI will run on a Debian system? Caldera's web page kind of says maybe. I'm tempted to pay the $200 just so I can run Quicken without booting up DOS/Windows. Consider CBB. It will import

Re: Will Caldera's WABI run on a Debian system?

1996-11-22 Thread Bruce Perens
not disclosed to me, and which of course I wouldn't publish without their permission. I think WINE is a technically superior approach to WABI, and I hope the availability of WABI doesn't impede WINE's progress. Thanks Bruce -- Bruce Perens K6BP [EMAIL PROTECTED] Finger [EMAIL PROTECTED

Will Caldera's WABI run on a Debian system?

1996-11-21 Thread Rick Macdonald
Does anybody know if Caldera's WABI will run on a Debian system? Caldera's web page kind of says maybe. I'm tempted to pay the $200 just so I can run Quicken without booting up DOS/Windows. I haven't checked for awhile, but I assume that WINE is still a long ways away. I couldn't tolerate having

Re: Will Caldera's WABI run on a Debian system?

1996-11-21 Thread Rob Browning
Rick Macdonald [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Does anybody know if Caldera's WABI will run on a Debian system? Caldera's web page kind of says maybe. I'm tempted to pay the $200 just so I can run Quicken without booting up DOS/Windows. Actually I use Executor for that. It runs Macintosh

Re: WABI

1996-09-05 Thread Christopher R. Hertel
I knew I was keeping this around for a reason... Subject: Wabi on Linux : : Info on Wabi for Linux: : : - : The Caldera Solutions CD : : Wabi will ship on the Caldera Solutions CD, which will be included : with every shipment of the Caldera Network Desktop

Re: WABI

1996-09-05 Thread Syrus Nemat-Nasser
On Wed, 4 Sep 1996, Jim Worthington wrote: I stumbled across a newsgroup called linux.dev.wabi. I didn't see any mention of wine, but I did get the impression that Sun wabi software was being recompiled for Linux. At the time I thought that it was strange that Sun would release their source

Re: WABI

1996-09-05 Thread Jim Pick
borik the Boris Yati Beletsky wrote: On Wed, 4 Sep 1996, Brian C. White wrote: |To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] |Subject: Re: WABI | | What is the present status of WABI for Linux? | |I've built wine package for debian and update it occasionally. i am sorry just interested , where

Re: WABI

1996-09-05 Thread Shaya Potter
Just to get this settled, Caldera has licesned the wabi source code from SUN, and they are porting it over to linux. It most likely will cost money, because Sun doesn't just give away the source code. If you want more information on it, I would suggest you look at Caldera's web page http

WABI

1996-09-04 Thread Jim Worthington
What is the present status of WABI for Linux? How well does it perform? Thanks, Jim

Re: WABI

1996-09-04 Thread Brian C. White
What is the present status of WABI for Linux? I've built wine package for debian and update it occasionally. How well does it perform? Pretty lousy. It's _very_ alpha. It runs most of the windows applets okay, but no real apps that I know of. You can find it in project/experimental

Re: WABI

1996-09-04 Thread borik the Boris Yati Beletsky
On Wed, 4 Sep 1996, Brian C. White wrote: |Date: Wed, 04 Sep 1996 01:18:38 -0400 |From: Brian C. White [EMAIL PROTECTED] |To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] |Cc: Debian Users debian-user@lists.debian.org |Subject: Re: WABI | | What is the present status of WABI for Linux? | |I've built wine package for debian

dosemu and bochs? (it was WABI)

1996-09-04 Thread Lazaro . Salem
Hi, DOSEMU I installed (not without some minor problems) dosemu_0.60.1-3.deb yesterday. It couldn't boot from the real floppy so I had to create an image of it in /var/lib/dosemu/bdisk as suggested in the config.dist - renamed to /etc/dosemu.conf. I also had to modify the latter to

dosemu and bochs? (it was WABI)

1996-09-04 Thread Lazaro . Salem
Hi, DOSEMU I installed (not without some minor problems) dosemu_0.60.1-3.deb yesterday. It couldn't boot from the real floppy so I had to create an image of it in /var/lib/dosemu/bdisk as suggested in the config.dist - renamed to /etc/dosemu.conf. I also had to modify the

Re: WABI

1996-09-04 Thread Jim Worthington
borik the Boris Yati Beletsky wrote: On Wed, 4 Sep 1996, Brian C. White wrote: |To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] |Subject: Re: WABI | | What is the present status of WABI for Linux? | |I've built wine package for debian and update it occasionally. i am sorry just interested , where can i get