From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Aug 8 04:52:16 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 500BF16A4DD for ; Tue, 8 Aug 2006 04:52:16 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from micahjon@ywave.com) Received: from relay0.av-mx.com (relay0.av-mx.com [137.118.16.125]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AF42B43D5F for ; Tue, 8 Aug 2006 04:52:13 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from micahjon@ywave.com) X-Virus-Scan-Time: 0 Received: from [137.118.16.55] (HELO mx3.av-mx.com) by relay0.av-mx.com (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 4.2.10) with SMTP id 347316676 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Tue, 08 Aug 2006 00:52:15 -0400 Received: (qmail 20444 invoked from network); 8 Aug 2006 04:52:12 -0000 Received: from dsl17146.ywave.com (HELO ?192.168.1.65?) (micahjon@ywave.com@216.227.104.146) by mx3.av-mx.com with SMTP; 8 Aug 2006 04:52:12 -0000 X-CLIENT-IP: 216.227.104.146 X-CLIENT-HOST: dsl17146.ywave.com Message-ID: <44D81873.6080907@ywave.com> Date: Mon, 07 Aug 2006 21:52:03 -0700 From: Micah User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.5 (X11/20060730) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Gautham Ganapathy References: <20060731062835.e72c8bd2fa3c8298c4bf39a8c4c61b77.c52d518029.wbe@email.secureserver.net> <1154985546.78988.4.camel@localhost> In-Reply-To: <1154985546.78988.4.camel@localhost> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Joshua Lewis , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Wine and FreeBSD how to 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: Tue, 08 Aug 2006 04:52:16 -0000 Gautham Ganapathy wrote: > On Mon, 2006-07-31 at 06:28 -0700, Joshua Lewis wrote: >> I installed wine on my 6.1 system but I don't see a config file >> anywhere on the system. Has anyone installed and used Wine >> successfully that could point me towards an easy FreeBSD how to? Or >> something similar. I told my 7 year old I would load a game for him >> and wanted to look for an easy how too. >> Sincerely, >> Joshua Lewis >> > > Run 'wine' once from the shell for it to generate the .wine directory > under $HOME. Then, try using 'winecfg' for configuration > > However, so far I have not been able to get anything more complex than > notepad running under wine on freebsd-6.1-release > > Regards > Gautham There's a nice technical discussion of WINE vs FreeBSD over on hackers@ (http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-hackers/2006-July/017323.html) that talks about why wine doesn't work. Supposedly if you set up wine to emulate Win2K it'll work better, but not perfectly (like WINE ever worked perfectly :) and there are patches in the pipeline that'll help with some other problems. HTH, Micah