[REBOL] Re: Lindows...
From: g:santilli:tiscalinet:it at: 18-Jun-2002 19:50
Hi Joanna,
On Tuesday, June 18, 2002, 4:57:50 PM, you wrote:
JK> What I have understood, they have tried to make this emulation as invisible
JK> as possible so that end user needs not to tweak Linux details to run those
Actually this just needs including a proper Wine configuration or
configurator. Just to give an example, I tried running WinZip from
my rather standard RedHat 7.2 configuration after setting up
Wine's config file, and it succesfully ran, even placing an icon
on GNOME's desktop (exactly like it does on Windows).
So again, I don't see it as something that shaking... but this
does not mean they will not succeed: they are actually marketing
it, while no one is doing it in the same area (i.e. neither RedHat
nor Mandrake are saying that their Linux distros are in any way
compatible with some Windows software, at least not in such big
letters :), and they are probably contributing to Wine's source to
make it run more and more applications...
Regards,
Gabriele.
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