Wine emulates windows code. Plex86 virtualizes windows. The difference: instead of emulating each instruction, plex86 lets the windows program run natively, and interceps windows type calls. Supposedly it runs much faster, and is much easier and more portable to virtualizing other platforms than strict emulation. I also haven't been able to get it to run. They have little documentation, as it's still in CVS. I have compiled it, and they have a howto to get it to work with DOS. It supposedly works with a windows image, but again the docs are skimpy. In fact, there is a set of documentation, all in xml. If you want it in another format like text, there is a whole slew of programs that need to be installed so that their scripts will translate it into ps/html/text files! If anyone has had some success getting plex86 to boot windows, PLEASE POST!! Thanks Cory -----Original Message----- From: Justin Bengtson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, March 06, 2001 8:10 AM To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: [EUG-LUG:332] Re: Running Linux programs on Windoze? well, i can't get it to run... supposedly it runs off of a disk image of the "other" OS, allowing you to run applications natively instead of through emulation. > -----Original Message----- > From: Bob Crandell [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Tuesday, March 06, 2001 8:07 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: [EUG-LUG:331] Re: Running Linux programs on Windoze? > > What do you know about Plex86? Is it any better than Wine? > > > >>> "Patrick R. Wade" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 3/5/2001 8:28:09 PM >>> > On Mon, Mar 05, 2001 at 05:12:12PM -0800, Ralph Zeller wrote: > > > >Here's an interesting project, for those of us still at lease > partly stuck > >in the windoze world: > > > >http://neomueller.org/~isamu/line/ > > > >LINE Is Not an Emulator. LINE is a utility which executes > unmodified Linux > >applications on Windows by intercepting Linux system calls. The > Linux > >applications themselves are not emulated. They run directly on > the CPU just > >like all other Windows applications. > > Looks interesting, but a little rough. Sort of like Plex86 in > reverse > (http://www.plex86.org). You might also check out Cygwin > http://www.cygwin.com
