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?

The blood of christ, fermented vinegar grapes and yeast... Not my choice personally

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.

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.

Kind of inspires me to get Linux....linux with a windows taste...hmm...like wine...heh

yeah, really nice.

oh yeah, Lindows offers the full version of version 4.5 for free...

I may have to download that once I get on a friends cable :)

It isn't free normally? :?

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 :(

thats what you aim profile says you do. :lol: