[SLUG] Re: wine (Was: Re: Opinions, please.)

2002-03-21 Thread Angus Lees
\begin{Peter Hardy} > On Fri, 2002-03-22 at 10:39, Jeff Waugh wrote: > > > > > Commercial software, but well worth the price, and the money gets poured > > > back in to wine development. > > > > Proprietary! We use Free commercial software *every* day. > > Pedant! :-) > Free software, with some

[SLUG] Re: wine (Was: Re: Opinions, please.)

2002-04-14 Thread Angus Lees
At Fri, 12 Apr 2002 14:22:53 +1000, Andre Pang wrote: > Not to take anything away from the work that CodeWeavers have > done, but I'm still surprised at the number of people who haven't > heard of Win4Lin. > Its downsides are (a) no support for Windows 2000, and (b) > basically no DirectX support

Re: [SLUG] Re: wine (Was: Re: Opinions, please.)

2002-03-21 Thread Jeff Waugh
> note that as of a week or two ago, wine is now LGPL (instead of X11ish) I didn't realise this had already happened (and so soon!) - great! - Jeff -- "And up in the corporate box there's a group of pleasant thirtysomething guys making tuneful music for the masses of p

Re: [SLUG] Re: wine (Was: Re: Opinions, please.)

2002-04-14 Thread Simon Wong
On Sat, 2002-04-13 at 19:31, Angus Lees wrote: > and of course (`) its non-free. It does look quite pricey. I think I'll try codeweaver's wine first ... -- * * Simon Wong* * * * <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * * * *

Re: [SLUG] Re: wine (Was: Re: Opinions, please.)

2002-04-15 Thread lukekendall
On 15 Apr, Simon Wong wrote: > It does look quite pricey. I bought a copy of version 1.0, and followed their instructions very carefully, patching the kernel etc. and applying all the tests to make sure that things were setup properly and ready for the install. I could never complete the insta

Re: [SLUG] Re: wine (Was: Re: Opinions, please.)

2002-04-15 Thread Peter Hardy
On Mon, 2002-04-15 at 22:27, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I could never complete the install, since at a certain point in the > install, text stopped being displayed. I sent them detailed information > about the problems, got one reply, asking for some more info, gave it > to them, and they said "H

Re: [SLUG] Re: wine (Was: Re: Opinions, please.)

2002-04-15 Thread lukekendall
On 15 Apr, Peter Hardy wrote: > kind of freeze up. Much head-scratching and strace-ing eventually > revealed that the installation program launches an xterm, to prompt for > input, and to give feedback on the installation progress. > ... I didn't have xterm installed. That wouldn't have