From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Sep 16 10:43:08 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id KAA24356 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Wed, 16 Sep 1998 10:43:08 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from dt053nb4.san.rr.com (dt053nb4.san.rr.com [204.210.34.180]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id KAA24345 for ; Wed, 16 Sep 1998 10:43:02 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from Studded@dal.net) Received: from dal.net (Studded@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by dt053nb4.san.rr.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id KAA24856; Wed, 16 Sep 1998 10:42:34 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from Studded@dal.net) Message-ID: <35FFF88A.8B3F4E76@dal.net> Date: Wed, 16 Sep 1998 10:42:34 -0700 From: Studded Organization: Triborough Bridge & Tunnel Authority X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.06 [en] (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.2.7-STABLE-0914 i386) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: brian@wildwoodvet.com CC: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Wine status References: <19980916031759.A17155@top.worldcontrol.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG brian@wildwoodvet.com wrote: > > I'm trying to get my wife to stop using M$ Windows. I've found on > the Wine website that most of applications my wife uses are > running well enough under Wine. > > Wine however core dumps for me under -current, and checking the > mailing list archives it looks like no one is actively supporting > the Wine port. Short version, wine sucks. Longer version, wine sucks a lot. Basically, the wine developers are extremely linux-centric, and have no interest in moving towards a more cross-platform solution. If you don't need networked applications, the bochs port is supposed to be very good, although it takes a big investment in time and disk space to install. Hope this helps, Doug To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message