From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jan 27 20:45:23 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E62401065673 for ; Thu, 27 Jan 2011 20:45:23 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dmitri@momus.net) Received: from na3sys009aog106.obsmtp.com (na3sys009aog106.obsmtp.com [74.125.149.77]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 6AFDA8FC08 for ; Thu, 27 Jan 2011 20:45:23 +0000 (UTC) Received: from source ([209.85.161.48]) (using TLSv1) by na3sys009aob106.postini.com ([74.125.148.12]) with SMTP ID DSNKTUHZYi5An6ys+waFiPG07jJQq7nUPRtC@postini.com; Thu, 27 Jan 2011 12:45:23 PST Received: by mail-fx0-f48.google.com with SMTP id 2so2947970fxm.21 for ; Thu, 27 Jan 2011 12:45:22 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.223.95.199 with SMTP id e7mr1416406fan.39.1296160669142; Thu, 27 Jan 2011 12:37:49 -0800 (PST) MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.204.116.133 with HTTP; Thu, 27 Jan 2011 12:37:23 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <4D41BDF6.5080904@blakemfg.com> References: <4D41BDF6.5080904@blakemfg.com> From: Dmitri Brengauz Date: Thu, 27 Jan 2011 13:37:23 -0700 Message-ID: To: Fred Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: wine questions X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 27 Jan 2011 20:45:24 -0000 On Thu, Jan 27, 2011 at 11:48 AM, Fred wrote: > Hello, > > I need to buy an expensive logic device programmer that connects to a PC > through USB. Unfortunately, the user software that make it go only runs on > Bill Gates' cancerous, virus-infested, scourge of the Earth excuse for an OS > which I do not use. Is it likely to work ok using wine? What type of > programs do not work well with wine? There is a supported, commercial > version of wine that runs on Linux. Would I be better off buying that and > running it on the FBSD Linux emulation? > > Best regards, > Fred > > _______________________________________________ > Have you tried VirtualBox? You still have to shell out for a Windows license, but at least the Gates virus will be contained securely on your computer. For me, Virtual Box + FreeBSD has been running better than VMWare + OS X. Once again, free software, more than worth the price.