[Wine] WINE - Ambitious Project

[David Gerard]

2009/9/23 tpreitzel <wineforum-user at winehq.org>:

> Although difficult  and complex to implement, the WINE project is likely one of the better if not the best method to run Windows applications on machines without Windows. Eliminate emulation. Eliminate virtualization. IIRC, I've been using WINE periodically for nearly a decade and the progress has been amazing. Although most of my Windows programs are older, the vast majority run now. I can even use XGPlayer with the TiMidity++ soft synthesizer. Although I haven't tested recently, I'd surely love using Windows' drivers with WINE as I have a few programs which require them. I wonder about the practicality and stability of using such programs with WINE, though. Regardless, I'm thrilled with the current state of WINE.  The developers deserve our thanks.


Windows drivers won't work with Wine - Wine is just an interface for
applications.

ReactOS is an attempt to make a clone of Windows NT (in the way
GNU/Linux is a clone of Unix), to the point of running Windows
drivers. It's not very far along as yet ...


- d.