From owner-freebsd-multimedia Sun Jan 9 8:45:18 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org Received: from mail2.netcologne.de (mail2.netcologne.de [194.8.194.103]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6447C14DEE; Sun, 9 Jan 2000 08:44:54 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from van.woerkom@netcologne.de) Received: from oranje.my.domain (dial-ra-nc3-36.netcologne.de [195.14.251.36]) by mail2.netcologne.de (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id RAA15453; Sun, 9 Jan 2000 17:44:50 +0100 (MET) Received: (from marc@localhost) by oranje.my.domain (8.9.3/8.9.3) id RAA03638; Sun, 9 Jan 2000 17:43:24 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from van.woerkom@netcologne.de) Date: Sun, 9 Jan 2000 17:43:24 +0100 (CET) Message-Id: <200001091643.RAA03638@oranje.my.domain> X-Authentication-Warning: oranje.my.domain: marc set sender to van.woerkom@netcologne.de using -f From: Marc van Woerkom To: nsouch@free.fr Cc: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org, freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org, se@freebsd.org In-reply-to: <20000109001906.49031@breizh.free.fr> (message from Nicolas Souchu on Sun, 9 Jan 2000 00:19:06 +0100) Subject: Re: Win32 Netscape and Real Audio Player run under Wine on -CURRENT Reply-To: van.woerkom@netcologne.de References: <200001070042.BAA07413@oranje.my.domain> <20000109001906.49031@breizh.free.fr> Sender: owner-freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > 1) I thought the wine project has been died for a long time > 2) I never thought this would ever succeed You, like me, probably had the impression of wine being some interesting but not too useful bit of software. Now it turns out that it is able to run some nontrivial applications. (At least real audio support is some recurring PITA for FreeBSD users, we have no native version of their latests formats and need to use the linux alpha version, or can now try the win32 one) Beats me why the wine developers don't promote their project more. Possibly the Linux crowd is more informed than the BSD one about the usefulness of wine. I found some links in the meantime http://www.linuxgames.com/wine it looks that the most important Microsoft applications (Minesweeper, Solitaire, Tetris and Wordpad) run perfect. :) What to do now? The success story of the Linux emulator shows that it is a good idea to roll ports, like wine-netscape wine-realaudio wine-wordviewer wine-excelviewer which would make it easy for people to use the software. And of course to send patches back to the wine people (e.g. I spotted a small error in the FreeBSD CD DA access) > What would make really sense in choosing FreeBSD versus other OSes? I more and more believe that choice of OS is depending on social and cultural issues rather then on technical ones, because they will become all pretty good. It is similiar to the different European nations. All have fairly high level, but at the same time everyone has its characteristic things it does not want to give up. Variety is good. If you want to drive fast, go to Germany, if you like good food go to France or Italy (but avoid England) .. Regards, Marc To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-multimedia" in the body of the message