On Thu, 29 May 2003, Edenyard wrote:
Has anyone here ever had any experience of using Wine to run anything useful?
Word 2000, for the most part, runs nicely in wine 0.0.20020411-1, although the Office Assistant isn't happy.
I've tried installing it twice now on my Slackware 8.1 system. Sure enough, it runs solitaire (from an old Win3.11 disk I have) as claimed in teh documentation, but it chokes completely on anything and everything else that I've tried, specifically catalogue-CDs from the likes of Farnell, RS, Texas, etc., including one old one that I KNOW has been run on W3.1.
If they're anything like the catalogue CDs I've used, they rely on the presence of Internet Explorer. I've just checked, and although IE6 will run under wine (in the sense of a window appearing, with menus that will drop down,) it doesn't seem keen to do much. Also, as you don't have a Windows partition, I guess you'd need to install it. I have two nasty feelings about this.
1 Installing software under wine _might_ be a rather more difficult proposition than running software that's already been installed using "real" Windows.
2 The license terms for IE _might_ say something unsupportive, about installing it when you don't have a validly licensed Microsoft operating system.
Sorry I can't say anything more positive.