Date: Mon, 5 May 2003 17:14:25 -0400 From: "Michael W. Holdeman" <PTFD9100@beanstalk.net> To: "clayton rollins" <crollins666@hotmail.com> Cc: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Another reason to like FreeBSD Message-ID: <200305051714.25747.PTFD9100@beanstalk.net> In-Reply-To: <Sea1-F122CbtIPDkX5d00015e93@hotmail.com> References: <Sea1-F122CbtIPDkX5d00015e93@hotmail.com>
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Hi Clayton, Thanks, I was unable to get Wine ot run my apps, I realize they are making progress and I should retry soon. Win4lin is at www.netraverse.com Mike On Monday 05 May 2003 04:38 pm, clayton rollins wrote: > >On 5 May 2003 15:38:07 "Michael W. Holdeman" <PTFD9100@beanstalk.net> > > > >I had FreeBSD 4.5 running on my laptop and dearly loved it. Wish I could > > go back! Problem was there was not enough interest from BSD users to get > > Netraverse to port Win4Lin to BSD. > >Any progress on this? I have 2 legacy Windoze apps I must run, and Win4Lin > >is > >the only way to run them ! > > > >Mike > > (snipped) > > Hi Mike, > > I have never heard of win4lin, but you might find wine just as useful. > > Here's a snippet from the pkg-descr: (in case you don't have bsd up and > running) > "Wine is a Microsoft Windows 3.1/95/98/NT/2000 emulator running under Unix > on i386 (and compatible) CPUs. > > It is still alpha quality, but is definitely making progress. Most > applications already work, more or less, including even a couple of games." > > The port directory is emulators/wine. > > Hope it works for your app.s, > Peace, > Clayton > > > _________________________________________________________________ > Help STOP SPAM with the new MSN 8 and get 2 months FREE* > http://join.msn.com/?page=features/junkmail -- Michael W. Holdeman Why keep payin g for windoze?? Powered by Gentoo Linux 1.2 www.gentoo.org Linux Kernel 2.4.20 lowlatency, preemptable Windows Apps thanks to Win4Lin 4.0 www.netraverse.com
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