Awesome, I did some quickie work on Wine on the XO last year.. http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Wine
:) hoping that some day, someone would pickup the ball and run with it! I'll definitely test out the new Activity and offer some feedback, the next chance I get! -iXo p.s. for extra excitement, install Google's Picasa for Linux (which includes Wine!).... slow... slow.. but it works ! :) On Tue, Dec 9, 2008 at 12:02, Vincent Povirk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > The Wine activity has advanced to the point where I think it's ready > for testing by actual users. > > The current package, development history, and my todo list are at > http://wiki.winehq.org/SugaredWine > > The intent of this project is to provide a shell that can be used to > run Windows programs using Wine in the Sugar environment. It should be > good enough that someone used to Windows can grab and install a > Windows program without help, once the activity is installed. Ideally, > the installer and software will both work fine in Wine and within the > hardware limitations of an XO. In this ideal case, someone used to > Windows should be able to operate it without help. > > If it does not live up to this ideal for platinum software (according > to the Wine appdb) whose hardware requirements the XO meets, I want to > know about it and hopefully fix it. > > Wine bugs and hardware limitations mean a lot of Windows programs > won't work or won't work properly. On Linux, one can often push the > compatibility much further than what works "out of the box" by looking > at console messages (the log viewer works for this) and tweaking Wine. > Don't expect everything to work perfectly, but don't give up if it > doesn't. This is normal, even on Linux. > > Winehq.org has support channels for such cases (appdb, bugzilla, > mailing lists, and the winehq irc channel). Most of the people there > probably don't know anything about Sugared Wine, but collectively they > should know more than I do about making Wine work in general. If a > program doesn't work for you, you can go to any of those places for > support. You can also email [EMAIL PROTECTED] That goes > directly to me for now, but in the future (maybe the very near future) > I may decide to send it somewhere public, like a mailing list, > instead. > > Wine and the code that I developed for this project are licensed under > the GNU LGPL. The entire package isn't quite LGPL because I included > 7-zip. 7-zip is LGPL + unRAR restriction (you're not allowed to use > the source code to create a RAR compressor). > > If you have a program that works well in this Wine package and would > like to package it as a stand-alone .xo, please let me know. I already > did most of the work for this so that I could include 7-zip and a > firefox downloader/installer (and I could probably have included > firefox itself if not for the fact that it would require uploading > non-open-source code to repo.or.cz). > > Vincent Povirk > _______________________________________________ > Devel mailing list > Devel@lists.laptop.org > http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel >
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