In Linux, no one can hear you Wine

[Tom Buskey]

On 3/25/06, Fred <puissante at lrc.puissante.com> wrote:
>
> On Saturday 25 March 2006 00:00, Paul Lussier wrote:
> > "Lawrence Tilly" <mail.list.tilly at gmail.com> writes:
> > > I turn to you all in desperate hope that someone can offer some aid in
> > > a few issues I'm having with Wine.  I have talked to a few people and
> > > been doing a LOT of Google time and reading but it seems for so many
> > > people Wine "just works" now days.  Once again, I'm exceptional.  :-)
> >
> > It's good to know that *nothing* has changed in the 10+ year
> > development of Wine :) *EVERY* time I've bothered to try Wine, I'll
> > get *almost* to where I want to be, and then BLAMMO, it blows up in my
> > face.  Google reports no such problem had by any other person on the
> > planet, and in fact just the opposite, everyone else has Wine working
> > just fine :)
> >
> > My how times don't change ;)
>
> Win4Lin works better than Wine. Alas, it's not FOSS. Not to mention a bit
> slow, but you do get to run full-blown Windows on it. Paid $100 for it.
> But
> it works. I do bemoan the lack of USB support in it, though. May be
> addressed by now; don't know. Now when I need to do Windows I just bring
> it
> up on my dual-booted laptop.



VMware does USB.  The Reader is free so you can run images someone else
created.  I can't imagine anyone giving out free windows images but there is
a trial period for the Workstation which can create images that reader can
use.

Last I tried Win4Lin it was a bit faster then VMware at the time.  YMMV



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measures.
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