Greg -- Wine provides an API + runtime environment that allows Windows executables to execute in Linux. The CPRS screencam videos, for example, run well on Linux under Wine. MS Office is supported under Crossover Office, which is the commercially supported version of Wine. See http://www.codeweavers.com/compatibility/browse/cat for the status of other applications under Crossover Office.
Wine is not like VMWare, where you need a Windows license and need to install Windows in a virtual machine. -- Bhaskar On Wed, 2005-07-27 at 13:38 -0500, Greg Woodhouse wrote: > I guess I'm a bit confused here. My assumption was that Wine would > provide a virtual machine environment like VMWare or VirtualPC, but > based on this discussion, it seems that this is not the case. Does > Wine > attempt to run native executables linked to a set of libraries > intended > to emulate win32, or does it actually provide a win32 virtual > machine? > Something else, perhaps? ------------------------------------------------------- SF.Net email is Sponsored by the Better Software Conference & EXPO September 19-22, 2005 * San Francisco, CA * Development Lifecycle Practices Agile & Plan-Driven Development * Managing Projects & Teams * Testing & QA Security * Process Improvement & Measurement * http://www.sqe.com/bsce5sf _______________________________________________ Hardhats-members mailing list Hardhats-members@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/hardhats-members
