Comparison info please?

[Lonnie Cumberland]

Hello All,

I hope that all of you are doing well today.

Recently, I have been doing some searching on the web and have come
across different verions of Wine and am not sure how they compare to
each other as far as advancements.

I have found Wine (here), Rewind, and also WineX.

could someone please tell me about the differences and also which
might be the most advanced and stable?

thanks in advance,
Lonnie

[Andriy Palamarchuk]

Lonnie,

--- Lonnie Cumberland  wrote:
> Hello All,
>
> I hope that all of you are doing well today.
>
> Recently, I have been doing some searching on the
> web and have come
> across different verions of Wine and am not sure how
> they compare to
> each other as far as advancements.
>
> I have found Wine (here), Rewind, and also WineX.
>
> could someone please tell me about the differences
> and also which
> might be the most advanced and stable?

1) this is a question for wine-users mailing list, not
wine-devel.

2) In short: 
  Wine - the "main" branch of the Wine project
  ReWind branch was created after changing license for
Wine project to LGPL. ReWind keeps old BSD-style
license.
WineX is a commercial product from Transgaming with
some advanced features (DirectX 3D in particlar).
Other Wine-based commercial products - Codeweavers
Office and PlugIn, LindowsOS.

3) If you want stability look at Codeweavers Office,
don't know about other commercial products.
I believe the most advanced branch is main Wine
project, but it is much less stable. As I mentioned
before WineX has some features, not implemented in
Wine.

Andriy Palamarchuk

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[Lonnie Cumberland]

Thanks for the comparison information.

Cheers,
Lonnie
> Lonnie,
>
> --- Lonnie Cumberland  wrote:
> > Hello All,
> >
> > I hope that all of you are doing well today.
> >
> > Recently, I have been doing some searching on the
> > web and have come
> > across different verions of Wine and am not sure how
> > they compare to
> > each other as far as advancements.
> >
> > I have found Wine (here), Rewind, and also WineX.
> >
> > could someone please tell me about the differences
> > and also which
> > might be the most advanced and stable?
> - this is a question for wine-users mailing list, not
>
> wine-devel.
> - In short:
>
> Wine - the "main" branch of the Wine project
>  ReWind branch was created after changing license for
> Wine project to LGPL. ReWind keeps old BSD-style
> license.
> WineX is a commercial product from Transgaming with
> some advanced features (DirectX 3D in particlar).
> Other Wine-based commercial products - Codeweavers
> Office and PlugIn, LindowsOS.
> - If you want stability look at Codeweavers Office,
>
> don't know about other commercial products.
> I believe the most advanced branch is main Wine
> project, but it is much less stable. As I mentioned
> before WineX has some features, not implemented in
> Wine.
>
> Andriy Palamarchuk
>
> Do You Yahoo!?
> Yahoo! Health - your guide to health and wellness
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[Andriy Palamarchuk]

--- Lonnie Cumberland  wrote:
> Hello All,
>
> I hope that all of you are doing well today.
>
> Recently, I have been doing some searching on the
> web and have come
> across different verions of Wine and am not sure how
> they compare to
> each other as far as advancements.
>
> I have found Wine (here), Rewind, and also WineX.
>
> could someone please tell me about the differences
> and also which
> might be the most advanced and stable?
>
> thanks in advance,
> Lonnie

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[Andreas Mohr]

On Mon, May 06, 2002 at 01:32:07PM -0400, Lonnie Cumberland wrote:
> Hello All,
>
> I hope that all of you are doing well today.
>
> Recently, I have been doing some searching on the web and have come
> across different verions of Wine and am not sure how they compare to
> each other as far as advancements.
>
> I have found Wine (here), Rewind, and also WineX.
>
> could someone please tell me about the differences and also which
> might be the most advanced and stable?

Heh, I had *just* finished adding this topic to the FAQ, when you came in
and asked this very question...

www.winehq.com/FAQ/

[Dustin Navea]

--- Lonnie Cumberland  wrote:
> Hello All,
>
> I hope that all of you are doing well today.
>
> Recently, I have been doing some searching on the
> web and have come
> across different verions of Wine and am not sure how
> they compare to
> each other as far as advancements.
>
> I have found Wine (here), Rewind, and also WineX.
>
> could someone please tell me about the differences
> and also which
> might be the most advanced and stable?
>
> thanks in advance,
> Lonnie

wine (here) is the original wine, it was designed to
let people run windows programs on any unix-like
operating system, actively maintained and updated
daily by alexandre julliard, stable/unstable status
can change from day-to-day, uses LGPL license.

rewind is the same as this one, but uses older X11
license, actively maintained and updated by eric
pouech, ove kaaven, and david hammerton.

winex is a fork of rewind that is designed mainly for
gamers.  actively maintained and updated daily by
transgaming, inc, users can download from cvs, or pay
a $5/month subscription fee to receive official tech
support and built-in copy protection support.

there is also codeweavers, which is a fork of this
tree, actively maintained and updated daily by
codeweavers, inc, main support for wine, pushing
toward official "1.0" release, uses updates from here
and internal updates, can only be downloaded (as far
as i know) as snapshots of cvs code.

also is an ibm (internal) fork, and a defunct corel
fork, neither of which are/can be used by the general
public.

hope that helps

-Dustin

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