On Thu, May 29, 2003 at 09:36:31AM +0100, John Woodard wrote:
On Thursday 29 May 2003 9:05 am, raph@panache.demon.co.uk wrote:
On 29-May-2003 Edenyard wrote:
Has anyone here ever had any experience of using Wine to run anything useful?
In practial terms, I think that Wine has been overtaken by VMWare. I know that Wine is free and VMWare is not, but VMWare works. AFAIK Wine never quite made it to proper functionality and VMWare does so much more at a very reasonable price.
The cost in monetary terms is reasonable but VMWare whilst not being "Free Software" also needs a MicroSoft licence to run Windows. Wine is afaia "Free" as in freedom and allows Windows programs to run without the MS licence. I know which I'd choose given the choice.
you call £187.50+ reasonable! (linuxemporium are flogging it for £255, and the old version at that!) I need to sell some of my junk on to you! ;)
although I will admit I have purchased every version of vmware from 2 upwards (atlhough I don't use it for running windows usually its for playing with BSD and other linuxes and things like plan9) and fortunatly got good discounts all the way. The total cost for me has been well under £70 quid a year.
Adam