On Thu, 2002-01-24 at 18:18, Dennis M. Gray wrote:
> Can anyone comment on the difference (pros and cons) between these two
> products?
Wine is a Free Software project, with the aim of re-implementing the
Windows APIs. The hope is to make it easier for Win32 software vendors
to port to *nix, by just linking with winelib instead of the win32
libraries. See Corel's office suite for an example (Corel have poured
quite a lot of development effort into wine, merging all of their work
back into the main tree).
The program loader, which is what most people think of when they're
talking about wine, is really more of an afterthought.
Wine is distributed under a BSD-style licence. It's freely
redistributable, but you're also allowed to use the code in
closed-source products. Transgaming and Codeweavers are already using
wine as the core of commercial products[1].
>From what I've read of Lindows, it looks like it'll be a fairly standard
distribution, but with wine tightly integrated into the desktop
environment. That is, as Jeff pointed out, if it ever stops being
vapourware.
I doubt Lindows are doing anything that couldn't be done yourself easily
enough. So stick with wine, because it's better for your karma.
(And if you get stuck, ask SLUG!)
Cool trick for wine users:
* Make sure you've got support for the binfmt_misc driver[2] in
your kernel. I think it gets compiled in to distro kernels
these days - check that /proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc/ exists, or
try "modprobe binfmt_misc"
* If you're using a kernel later than 2.4.13, mount the
binfmt_misc filesystem: "mount -t binfmt_misc none
/proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc"
* "echo ':DOSWin:M::MZ::/path/to/wine:' >
/proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc/register"
And you should be able to run Windows binaries from the commandline.
ie, instead of "wine winfile.exe" you can just run "winfile.exe" and let
the kernel sort out how to make it go.
[1] http://www.transgaming.com/
http://codeweavers.com/home/ but beware of the silly snowflakes.
[2] Everything you need to know about binfmt_misc
http://www.tat.physik.uni-tuebingen.de/~rguenth/linux/binfmt_misc.html
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