[NTLUG:Discuss] Wine presentation

[Steve Baker]

Daniel Hauck wrote:
 
> First on the list of issues I'd like to see commented on is setup and
> installation of Wine itself.  Next I'd like to see the manner in which
> Windows applications are moved into data space that Linux/Wine can execute
> the code.

...and more importantly perhaps - how you set about installing the Windoze
application onto Linux if you can't load it onto a Windoze partition and
then move it.

I'd like to run The Sims under Linux - but I don't want to have to buy
the Mandrake/Sims bundles and install Mandrake just to play one stoopid
game.  It is possible to get an off-the-shelf Windoze version of The Sims
and the latest/greatest WINE download and run this under SuSE (say)?


> >  In particular, it has been
> > stated what Wine is good enough now to play many
> > Windows games and that could spell trouble for
> > the Linux native game market.

What Linux native game market?

IMHO: The best thing we can do right now is to be able to run Windoze games -
thus inticing more people to wipe their Windoze partitions - ultimately
resulting in many more Linux users...and *THEN* it'll be economically possible
to have many more native Linux games.

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