On Sat, 2008-06-21 at 06:31 -0700, Christian Ortiz wrote: > I voted for wine because some of the things that OpenSolaris lacks are > applications. we need programs like wine or mono, these are the base to run > more applications > > For example BitTorrent. You could use the mainline client or with some work > you can get Vuze(Azureus) working, but i'd prefer to run uTorrent if > possible.With wine we could run windows games like the orange box, Starcraft > or ZSnes. > > While you can do some of this with virtual box it has an overhead in memory > and CPU. >
BitTorrent isn't a great example because there are plenty of other clients available, neither is ZSNES - it's a portable, SDL-based program and runs natively. Wine isn't meant to be a solution for the general problem of application availability, it makes it possible to run specific applications where a substitute is impossible, such as the games you mentioned, software which is the only option to interoperate with existing Windows-based systems, applications targeting a specific field, and legacy or in-house software.
