On Thu, Jan 27, 2011 at 11:48 AM, Fred <f...@blakemfg.com> wrote: > Hello, > > I need to buy an expensive logic device programmer that connects to a PC > through USB. Unfortunately, the user software that make it go only runs on > Bill Gates' cancerous, virus-infested, scourge of the Earth excuse for an OS > which I do not use. Is it likely to work ok using wine? What type of > programs do not work well with wine? There is a supported, commercial > version of wine that runs on Linux. Would I be better off buying that and > running it on the FBSD Linux emulation? > > Best regards, > Fred > > _______________________________________________ > <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Have you tried VirtualBox? You still have to shell out for a Windows license, but at least the Gates virus will be contained securely on your computer. For me, Virtual Box + FreeBSD has been running better than VMWare + OS X. Once again, free software, more than worth the price. _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"