Hi, I've been following the Wine development for years now.
I was surprized when I learned of vmware and win4lin being able to run Windows. After some investigation it seems that they have consentrated on a simpler task that of building a virtual machine that can run Windows on top of linux.
Wine on the other hand is concentrating on replacing Windows a much harder task.
My question to the Wine comminuty is this ? Whithout stopping the current development would it be possible to build a striped down wine version that can run most Windows apps if you have windows available and are willing to install it in our Wine Virtual Environment.
Given that Wine already contains most of the code to read and use DLL's. Most of the drivers is already available what would it take to setup such a wine version. (Interim solution )
I think setting DefaultLoadOrder to native, then pointing wine at your windows installation would achieve the effect you wanted.
On the other hand, that doesn't always work - MS DLLs often make undocumented calls between each other. Also of course, the aim is to replace Windows, not just provide a convenient shortcut, if in 2020 we all use Linux but still have a Windows license lying around to run the occasional app, arguably we wouldn't have got anywhere at all.
thanks -mike
On Thu, 2003-03-27 at 07:34, Jacobus Erasmus wrote:
Hi, I've been following the Wine development for years now.
I was surprized when I learned of vmware and win4lin being able to run Windows. After some investigation it seems that they have consentrated on a simpler task that of building a virtual machine that can run Windows on top of linux.
Wine on the other hand is concentrating on replacing Windows a much harder task.
My question to the Wine comminuty is this ? Whithout stopping the current development would it be possible to build a striped down wine version that can run most Windows apps if you have windows available and are willing to install it in our Wine Virtual Environment.
Given that Wine already contains most of the code to read and use DLL's. Most of the drivers is already available what would it take to setup such a wine version. (Interim solution )
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My question to the Wine comminuty is this ? Whithout stopping the current development would it be possible to build a striped down wine version that can run most Windows apps if you have windows available and are willing to install it in our Wine Virtual Environment.
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