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Old 03-22-2004, 11:28 PM
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I have heard all this talk about Wine for linux. What is it exactly?

It is basically a thing to provide better compatibility with windows programs and the linux OS?
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Old 03-22-2004, 11:50 PM
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The blood of christ, fermented vinegar grapes and yeast... Not my choice personally
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Old 03-23-2004, 02:19 AM
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Wine, is a windows emulator. in my experiance its buggy at best.
it makes it to where you can 'run' 'windows' programs on a linux box.
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Old 03-23-2004, 06:14 AM
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yeah, and it works pretty damn well for a buggy emulator.

doesnt work well with programs that are programmed like shit (ie Trillian Instant Messenger, Thank you Cerulean for a fine pile of shit! i use it tho :( )

anyway supposedly running games under Wine can be faster than running them through Windows! find some benchmark results somewhere.
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Old 03-23-2004, 06:49 AM
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Kind of inspires me to get Linux....linux with a windows taste...hmm...like wine...heh
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Old 03-23-2004, 07:11 AM
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yeah, really nice.

oh yeah, Lindows offers the full version of version 4.5 for free...
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Old 03-24-2004, 04:16 AM
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I may have to download that once I get on a friends cable :)
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Old 03-24-2004, 03:23 PM
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oh yeah, Lindows offers the full version of version 4.5 for free...
It isn't free normally? :?
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Old 03-25-2004, 01:45 PM
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Nope Lindows is an evil corporation like Microsoft and has come to learn what greed is. I wanted to get it a good while ago until I found it wasn't free and since i'm on 56k downloading would take forever (not saying I break the law or anything :wink: )...so I didn't :(
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Old 03-25-2004, 01:59 PM
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(not saying I break the law or anything :wink: )
thats what you aim profile says you do. :lol:
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