On Thursday 03 April 2003 05:53 am, Lucio_Costa wrote: > Depends what U wanbt to run... > Wine is an Open Source implementation of the Windows > API on top of X and Unix. > > Think of Wine as a Windows compatibility layer. Wine > does not require Microsoft Windows, as it is a > completely alternative implementation consisting of > 100% Microsoft-free code, but it can optionally use > native system DLLs if they are available. Wine > provides both a development toolkit (Winelib) for > porting Windows sources to Unix and a program loader, > allowing many unmodified Windows binaries to run on > x86-based Unixes, including Linux, FreeBSD, and > Solaris. > > More information can be read in the articles Why Wine > is so important (http://www.winehq.com/?page=why) > > In VMWare u need a Windows license to install in it. > VMware Workstation is virtual machine software for > technical professionals. It lets you run multiple > versions of operating systems simultaneously on a > single computer. Quit wasting time configuring > hardware, installing software, rebooting/reconfiguring > systems. Spend more time developing, testing, and > deploying applications and delivering support. > > I think this is the most important thing to say. > > > ===== > []'s > Lucio Costa > > Linux user #204519 > "We do what we can, we give what we have > Our doubt is our passion and our passion is our task > The rest is the madness of art." > > _______________________________________________________________________ > Yahoo! Mail > O melhor e-mail gratuito da internet: 6MB de espaço, antivírus, acesso > POP3, filtro contra spam. http://br.mail.yahoo.com/
-- Thanks, just want to run some Windows apps until I can get the thing on Linux. I also like the idea of making Windows subservient to Linux. Would like to never go back, ha ha, still too many people lost in M$ land. William Brown
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