From: raph@panache.demon.co.uk
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.
But then VMWare is not a replacement for the windows API but a virtual machine emulator. To run a windows app under VMWare you'd need to obtain and install a copy of Windows. AFAIK Wine is a complete replacement for the Windows API that runs under GNU/Linux.
Just after I installed Debian Woody I had a brief play with Wine and managed to get a couple of Office 97 applictions running reasonably. I know it's under active development so I expect it's even better nearly a year later.
Regards,
Keith ____________ 'I always use the word impossible with the greatest caution.' - Wernher Von Braun