Wine and mono are unrelated and architecturally different. Wine translates the Win32 api, while Mono implements the CLR and directly consumes .NET source files and assemblies. Native vs managed here... .NET is mainly of interest for current and future business applications, and thankfully it's easier than translating Win32 api's... also consider that Mono CLR is portable, and has less overhead than translator + emulator for non-x86 architectures. Game emulators like snes9x are easy(ish) to port, natively, there's no need to do double the overhead when most of them can be ported from linux/ x11.
As for uTorrent, I see there's a following who like it, but there's Rtorrent, Ctorrent, Ktorrent, bittorrent (C/Python) and many others. I don't see why it's so hard to adopt any of those, there's nothing that utorrent offers that one or more of the available ported bittorrent clients don't have. Disk access is a major overhead to running wine applications, especially considering Solaris is a second- class citizen anyways, and in particular due to differences in design and intentions things are still suffering due to bad porting, or failed attempts to completely rewrite aspects that should had been. I believe the future is with Mono and native, Wine is a stop-gap and Codeweavers will listen to us soon enough. As a community it's easier to support actually documented technology, while wine is hunt and guess still. James On Jun 21, 2008, at 8:31 AM, 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. > > > This message posted from opensolaris.org > _______________________________________________ > desktop-discuss mailing list > desktop-discuss at opensolaris.org -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/desktop-discuss/attachments/20080621/4c9586f3/attachment.html>
