two apps questions

[Ove Kaaven]

Marc Ulrich <mdulrich at unity.ncsu.edu> writes:

> I'm new to wine & can't get a direct answer from the faq at winehq.
> 
> 1) Is there any reason why Coreldraw 9 for windows would not work in
> linux with wine installed?
> 
>     1b) Corel distributes their own wine package. Is it important to use
> this instead of what I might think of as the 'standard' wine package I
> would get from winehq?

Yes. Corel Wine contains a lot of improvements and changes that were
either never contributed back to the official Wine, or was too ugly to
be accepted into the official Wine. Since this has been going on for
so long now, merging now is also almost impossible, the two trees have
diverged too far apart from each other.