From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Nov 8 18:09:51 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0AAF016A75B for ; Wed, 8 Nov 2006 18:09:51 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from toreld@netscape.net) Received: from mail49.e.nsc.no (mail49.e.nsc.no [193.213.115.49]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8036243D5A for ; Wed, 8 Nov 2006 18:09:50 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from toreld@netscape.net) Received: from [62.16.242.67] (062016242067.customer.alfanett.no [62.16.242.67]) (authenticated bits=0) by mail49.nsc.no (8.13.8/8.13.5) with ESMTP id kA8I9jB4006273 for ; Wed, 8 Nov 2006 19:09:46 +0100 (CET) Message-ID: <45521CE9.1070404@netscape.net> Date: Wed, 08 Nov 2006 19:07:37 +0100 From: Tore Lund User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.7 (X11/20060925) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <20061108141516.GA1234@Klabautermann.ks.se> In-Reply-To: <20061108141516.GA1234@Klabautermann.ks.se> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: wine on FreeBSD RELENG_6 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: Wed, 08 Nov 2006 18:09:51 -0000 Christopher Illies wrote: > Is anyone successfully running wine emulating Windows 98 on FreeBSD > 6.X? Which programs are you trying to run? I think you have a greater chance of getting responses if you tell us that. > I know that wine used to have problems on FreeBSD and I never got it > to run properly with some programs. I now tried again, but without > success. Before going through the trouble of trouble-shooting and > posting error messages I would like to know whether it is worth my > while. I have had some problems with wine myself, and I find the documentation and "good advice" offered lacking in many respects. But I want to tell you that things seem to improve. I have just compiled wine 0.9.24, and for the first time it now runs my favorite photo editor without a hitch. I believe it very much depends on what programs you are trying to run and the effort you put into it. Besides, what is the alternative? I have tried qemu, and I think it is not the right thing for my purposes - I would rather dual boot Windows as long as I can make a handful of frequently used programs run under wine. But this is obviously a very personal choice - we all have different needs. -- Tore