Total Newbie here..

[lawson_whitney at juno.com]

On Sat, 24 Nov 2001, OldToker wrote:

> I am concidering taking the Jump to Linux. I have SuSE. 6.3  at the moment..
> but don't want to loose some of my M.$. Apps.. So I hear about wine.. as
> being able to run some of the apps.. this is great.. News.. for the Weary
> anyway..
>
> So does this Wine work with SuSE.. Please forgive me I haven't even played
> with Linux. yet.. just trying to get all my questions sorta answered before
> I wage battle and try to learn a new OS..
>
> Thanks for your time.. (In Advance)
>
Gerard raises a good point.  Wine is a wide-open software development
project, on an average day maybe we fix ten or twenty bugs and introduce
two or three new ones, plus or minus 2 orders of magnitude.  The overall
design of the beast may change (it has before), along with the format
and location of the config files.  Error messages and doco were mostly
written by programmers, for the enlightenment of other programmers who
might be willing to contribute to the project.   I _did_ take on Wine as
a linux newbie, I've enjoyed it, but I am a programmer by nature, and
had 20 years experience with an OS that has the slashes the right way in
the filesystem (/, not \ :-).  In many ways, any competent operating
system is very much like linux - that lets out anything by microsoft,
which isn't.  Microsoft software packages are booby-trapped against any
non-microsoft OS.  If the M$ apps you mean are MSIE and MS LookOut
Distress! and M$Office, and you need them for your work, look into
VMware or Win4lin.  If you mean windows programs you wrote yourself,
look into winemaker (included in Wine).  If you mean windows programs in
general, you might like to try Wine, but I make no guarantees.

OTOH, she had warts, and I wouldn't like you to be totally discouraged.
Wine doesn't care which flavor of Linux you use, as long as it runs on
X86 hardware and has a complete set of program-development software,
libraries, and header files.  I believe SuSE makes usable rpm's of Wine,
although of course they are obsolete, and no one wants to debug a
problem in an obsolete software package.  Please read <wine>/README.

Lawson
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