Subject: Re: Full screen capable? [OT]
From: Quentin Mason (quentin-mason@cornell.edu)
Date: Wed Jun 27 2001 - 10:50:34 MDT
> > Buy vmware to run windows inside linux on intel's. It is not emulated -- a
> > runtime environment like MOL and WINE (which is crap).
>
> How is Wine crap? It takes a lot of work to reimplement the Win32 API -
> which is what Wine has to do to be compatible with Windows programs. And
> that's hard, esp. when so many of the calls that are used aren't
> documented. Makes it kinda hard to duplicate their functionality when you
> don't know what they do, or what parameters they take.
>
> OT, I know, but I had to mention this - you try replicating the Win32 API,
I never said that it was easy -- the things that you mention make it
extremely difficult indeed, but nonetheless a worthy project -- but the
guy wants stability and WINE definitely is not that. It is not production
reliable + will not run MSWord for any signifigant period of time with an
interesting document. VMware on the other hand is far more stable and
certainly a cheaper upgrade path than a new machine, however nice a
titanium is. [and you can get cracked versions]
I would not compare the production reliabilty of WINE and MOL -- MOL is in
a different league and runs (almost) everything.
AFAIK MOL does not: talk to xtra hardware, or run windows emulators very
well.
To rephrase: WINE is an excellent and useful OSS project that has not yet
matured into a production stable reliable open-source runtime Win-on-Lin
environment. It would be "crap" for the use that the questionner had.
MOL, would be entirely suitable; I believe MacOS X would be to in
"classic" mode if you are prepared to stump up for the latest hardware and
pay the performance hit for mach + aqua.
Q.
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