--- In [email protected], "grant" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Open suse i like it because it looks like windows
> however the dissability to use exe. and all the programs renamed just
> became a hasels so i stay in this group incase linux strikes a deal
> with microsoft to let linux use exe. hope you find a version you like
>
It isn't a "licensing" issue. Executable files of ANY OS are
inextricably bound to that OS, be they DOS .exe/.com, Linux .bin, or
whatever. If you think of a computer as water, imagine Windows to be
swim fins and Linux as ice skates. Swim fins are useless on ice, and
ice skates wont be very good for swimming underwater. But that the
computer (water) can accomodate either if the environment is set up
correctly.
In other words, to run exe files you basically HAVE to BE Windows, or
pretending to be Windows ("emulating", via Wine or similar product) to
a high, if not perfect, degree of accuracy. I've heard tell, years
ago now, of a programming whiz who actually got his Ubuntu
installation running Wine to authenticate as a "Genuine Windows" XP
install, using Microsoft's online update. So, it's possible.
The rule of emulating is that the emulating machine will have to
execute an average of ten machine-code instructions for every single
such instruction of the device you're pretending to be, so an
emulation is literally ten times slower. But today's machines are
hundreds if not thousands of times faster than classic machines, which
is why emulating PSOne, Sega Genesis, and NES games works so well, and
"seem" to be real-time to the user.
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