Hey Everyone!

[Doogee]

Hi everyone. I just thought id say hello, or Gday i should say.
Yeah all i really have to say is im 14 years old and only been using Red Hat Linux for a few days (3 to be exact) and all i can say about is that it kicks Windows ass by a long shot.
Although ive done the dual boot thing so i can play games i havnt gone into windows yet cos im just getting the hang of linux.

I also have a question. Does anyone at all know how to use this wine thing cos i seriously cant figure it out. I mounted my c drive so i can get my mp3s etc from the windows partition but when i saw it had a windows emulator i thought id try it out using msmsgs.exe as the experiment. (I use gaim for chatting this is just the test) Yeah so if anyone would like to help us out it would be much apprecitated.

Thanks.

PS ALL my hardware was auto detected and set up! I thought that was pretty cool  

[foobar]

Hi. Welcome to the forums, glad you like linux so much. Next time, if you have something 'off-topic' to say, try posting in the lounge next time  

About the msn messager for winblows, i'm sure it doesn't use directx, does it ?
'cuz WineX (so i heard) emulates DirectX to let you run things like half-life in linux. I couldn't figure it out too, but you can't use a can opener to drive a truck, do you know what i mean ?

If you want a real 'windows emulator', you should try VMWare. Ask VoidMain about where to get it ..

But if you want to settle with directx programs first, just go for a tiny game called destruction derby 2 ...    It runs directx.

[Doogee]

So theres Wine and Theres WineX and WineX can emulate DirectX. Hmmm Whats So cool about VMWare?

I know this is prolly pretty basic question for every one except me but is there a way to emulate the desktop so u can run files like u would in windows. BTW Im using Gnome if that changes anything    Im so clueless hehe

[foobar]

Correct me if i'm wrong, folks:

 

quote:Originally posted by Doogee:
So theres Wine and Theres WineX and WineX can emulate DirectX.

Yeah. So i heard. I thought wine was just a dvd player/codec, and WineX was the directx simulator.

 

quote:
Hmmm Whats So cool about VMWare?

The kewl thing about vmware is that you can simply run ANY OS on top of ANY OS.
So you can run windows within windows, or even better, windows within linux ...

 

quote:
I know this is prolly pretty basic question for every one except me but is there a way to emulate the desktop so u can run files like u would in windows.

With VMWare, you simply _use_ windows ... how is that for emulating  

 

quote:
BTW Im using Gnome if that changes anything     Im so clueless hehe

umm... not a clue. I really don't think so, actually. I don't even know wether you need X or not  

[voidmain]

Wine is a pretty rough app, although it will run some Windows programs very well. I have been using VMware for a few years now and I really like it but it is fairly expensive, and it does require you to have a copy of Windows. VMware allows you to create a "virtual computer" containing "virtual hardware".  You will do a full installation of Windows into this "Virtual PC" so you can basically run most any Windows app natively without any problem and without having to reboot.  

In fact you can be running Linux as your base (host OS) and run many virutal machines under it.  You might have a Windows 2000 virtual machine, a Windows 98 virtual machine etc, all running at the same time and you can switch between them with ease. Now I would not suggest VMware if the reason you want it is to run high end Windows games. But if you want it for running productivity types of apps (MS Office, IE, Outlook, Visio, etc, etc, etc) then it's *perfect*.

One other thing, you are going to need a pretty healthy machine for VMware to run well (two operating systems running at the same time might need twice the power and resources).  I can tell you that I have an Athalon 1600+ with 512MB of RAM, and a GeForce2 w/32MB and it runs *great*. I can have Linux up, open Win98, BSD, and a couple of Solaris x86 machines all at the same time and my machine doesn't break a sweat.

[foobar]

Sounds sweet.
Now i wish i could affort a 1600+ Mhz processor PC ....

 

[DC]

quote:Originally posted by -=f00bar=-:
Correct me if i'm wrong, folks:
Yeah. So i heard. I thought wine was just a dvd player/codec, and WineX was the directx simulator.

No, wine is the original program (WINdows Emulator or Wine Is Not an Emulator). WineX is just Wine with added DirectX-wrappers (actually, for some stupid reason, my (CVS) version of WineX has an executable named 'wine').