[Wine] Ångström Linux run wine?

James McKenzie jjmckenzie51 at earthlink.net
Sun Mar 28 17:57:45 CDT 2010


DaVince wrote:
> James McKenzie wrote:
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>> DaVince wrote:
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>>> True. Wine won't work on PPC Macs.
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>> Davince:
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>> False:  Wine will run on PPC Macs.  It even has PPC specific code in
>> it.  However, Wine on a PPC Mac WILL NOT run Windows programs as Windows
>> code is for x86 type processors.  However, if you are willing to try and
>> truly be bored, you can get QEMU which is a x86 to PPC processor
>> emulator and then build Wine on top of this and then run your Windows
>> programs.  I've read of program load times in the span of hours...
>>
>> James McKenzie
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> I know it will run, but it won't run Windows apps... That's why I worded it as "it won't work". Didn't know about the QEMU thing though.
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The version of Darwine that can be downloaded from Sourceforge.net has
QEMU included for the PowerPC version even though it is very, very old
in the PowerPC release.  The Intel release does not.

James McKenzie






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