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Originally posted by saquarrier:
With a bit of monkying a freind of mine has Half Life running (faster than on windows) on wine.
What have you run under Wine other than Half Life? I've tried wine many times throughout it's history (although it's been a good 6 months since the last time) and although it seems to have gotten better as the releases came, it was *far* from being very usable in my exerience, and very slow. Don't get me wrong, there is nothing more I would like than having a free open source way of running Windows apps.
Maybe you have some wine insider information about them making much more headway and have a shortened expectation when it will actually be ready for prime time. Won't Half Life run natively under Linux? I used to run all the Quake versions under Linux natively (with some downloads from idSoftware).
When it will run RealFlight G2 then I'm there! I like VMWare because most Win apps run under it (except G2), but that is because it actually runs a full fledged copy of Windows in a Virtual machine.
RealFlight has nazi like copy protection and reverse engineering protection and it will not run because it thinks there is a debugger running, maybe VMWare has an option to fix that but I don't know of one. I have to actually boot Win natively to run that simulator. Everything else runs perfectly.
The bad thing about VMWare is it is not open source and it costs a fair amount, and it requires a copy of Windows which means legally you need to pay MS for that copy.
Another good thing about it, you can install other OSs under VMWare. I have two copies of Solaris 8 x86 and a copy of Win98 running at on my RedHat 7.2 box, all at the same time! And they all scream! Of course I'm running it on a 1.6Ghz Athalon with 512MB of RAM. I set up two Solaris virtual machines because I needed to play with some NIS/DNS client/server configurations. While I was at it I set up Samba, Apache, and a bunch of other crap so in Winblows Network Neighborhood on my home network you see 4 machines all actually running on one.
I would much rather move to Wine in the future because VMWare appears to be making some deals with Microsoft and then I'm outta there. There is another alternative that looks like it could also be better is "win4lin" (see
http://www.netraverse.com). Like VMWare it is a commercial product but I think they also have a free download and possibly a free version. I've not tried this yet but I have read some good reviews.
VMWare is by far the best but does cost and does not free you from Microsoft.
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UNIX is not easy because it has so many things to configure.
UNIX is better because it has so many things to configure.
[ December 13, 2001: Message edited by: VoidMain ]
