Initial feedback

[tom alderweireldt]

Hello,

I've just started to work my way through your Wine User Guide. I'm not a 
complete newbie (I've been playing with Linux for a while on a dual boot 
PC), but I'm certainly not a specialist. It looks like my RedHat 8.0 
default installation came with Wine-20020605. I searched for the check & 
configuration tools you recommend on pages 16 and 17, but they were 
missing. I found the winecheck script, but that returned an appallingly 
low score of only 1.78% after I copied the default config file on a 
freshly created /.wine directory.

So I'm now trying to figure out wether I try to get the configuration 
right for the existing default Wine installation or just throw it away 
and restart from scratch with the latest source code.

So far your user guide is quite helpful, but it looks like I have a 
loooong way to go to a working Wine setup.

Thanks for the starting text anyway, I'll let you know suggestions for 
improvement,

Best Regards,
Tom Alderweireldt

[Dan Kegel]

tom alderweireldt wrote:
> I've just started to work my way through your Wine User Guide. I'm not a 
> complete newbie (I've been playing with Linux for a while on a dual boot 
> PC), but I'm certainly not a specialist. It looks like my RedHat 8.0 
> default installation came with Wine-20020605. I searched for the check & 
> configuration tools you recommend on pages 16 and 17, but they were 
> missing. I found the winecheck script, but that returned an appallingly 
> low score of only 1.78% after I copied the default config file on a 
> freshly created /.wine directory.
>
> So I'm now trying to figure out wether I try to get the configuration 
> right for the existing default Wine installation or just throw it away 
> and restart from scratch with the latest source code.

I usually recommend downloading the latest monthly snapshot
sources.  Compiling only takes 20 minutes to an hour, depending
on your CPU.

However, the last time I did that, I ended up with a Wine that
defaults to Thai user interface.  So perhaps you should use
the October or November snapshot... I know October worked.
- Dan