Michael Signorelli wrote: > Hi, > Mandrake automatically detected-found and configured itself to my > cable internet card and worked so i had instant access without having > to ring an optus tech for assistance.
Excellent! Its always good to hear success stories. > > > > My question: > Has Mandrake got a "win 4lin" type program in its 3 disk set, so that > for example i can run downloaded windows programs like, msn > messenger and worldchessnetwork automatically in linux? good question. rpmdrake reliably informs me that there isn't something which directly does what you want. There is a version of wine which ships with Mandrake - this may or may not do what you want (wine is rougly speaking a windows emulator). My experiences with wine have been that it actually works pretty well for software released before about... 1998-99? somewhere around there. After that software starts using COM and all those other technologies that are foreign to me and wine doesn't have implemented yet. If you are going to go the wine path I suggest you use CVS wine though - wine is changing all the time. It's probably a good idea to stay on the bleeding edge for it. As an example - we used to have a girl living in our house here that needed to do some work in Microsoft Excel. I'd set up a Mandrake 7.2 system on a P1 or a 486 or something and she was running all her software remotely from my Athlon accross xdm (well, gdm but it's the xdm protocol AFAIK). I had a script which would update my CVS sources of wine and rebuild it about once every week (I think). And she was able to use almost all of Microsoft Office 97 over the network with very few problems at all. All that said - you might want to look into using Linux replacements for your windows software rather than trying to emulate windows. I think Gabber will talk MSN Messenger. I don't know about WorldChessNetwork. Is that the same as ICS? If it is the same as ICS (chessclub.com) you might want to look into eboard (http://eboard.sourceforge.net/) - which was something I found with a quick search on freshmeat. > > ...in other words if i download worldchessnetwork and select open or > run from its current location will the install-setup of > worldchessnetwork be successsfull and work in Mandrake? No. Not without a lot of fiddling and probably a lot of luck :) Do ask if you want help setting up CVS wine (or if someone has good experiences with one of the wine packages - post and let us know) or any of the chess/messaging programs. James. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
