On Thu, May 29, 2003 at 08:19:16AM +0000, Edenyard wrote:
I don't have a Windoze partition on either of my PCs, but my understanding of the Wine documentation is that I don't need one. A 500+ Mb package just to run solitaire (and, to be fair, winmine....) seems pretty useless to me. Is it really intended for running 'real- world' applications or I being really dumb here?
500Mb?! that sounds a bit wrong to me. Unless you have all the source kicking around and have built it from scratch. There are packages that are around 35Mb (compressed tgz for slackware so admittedly it will be bigger when installed) maybe try one of them? http://www.winehq.com/?page=download is where I looked.
Anyhow I have used Wine to run Microsoft Office in Linux before, and I use it to run Digiguide for windows also, I think a couple of years back I also made Half-life work so it does indeed work with a fairly broad selection of applications.
Adam