Notes from CentraLUG, 6-July 2009, Philip Sbogna and WINE

[Ted Roche]

Eight people made it to the July meeting of the Central New Hampshire 
Linux User Group, www.centralug.org, held at its July location of the 
Hopkinton Town Library.

Philip Sbrogna spoke and demonstrated Wine[1], the Microsoft Windows 
(tm) API emulator for Linux. Phil showed us how the install and 
configuration occurs, using a first-person shooter installed from CD. We 
talked about the structure of the files installed (in the home 
directory, under .wine), how to reset the Windows configuration (delete 
everything under .wine and run wine again to rebuild the default 
structure), where the registry files are stored (in the directory above 
the drive_c directory), add-on tools that can help get specific 
applications running (Winetools[2], Wine-doors[3], Winetricks [4]). 
Members had lots of questions, on- and off-topic, and discussion was 
vigorous and educational.

Tentative August meeting: a cookout, somewhere off I-93 exit 23. Stay 
tuned for details.

Thanks to Philip for making the trip and making a great presentation 
(despite projector difficulties) and to the Hopkinton Town Library for 
the facilities.

[1] http://www.winehq.org/
[2] http://von-thadden.de/Joachim/WineTools/
[3] http://wddb.wine-doors.org/
[4] http://wiki.winehq.org/winetricks

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Ted Roche
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