Date: Thu, 6 Dec 2007 14:06:38 -0500 From: "Person, Roderick" <personrp@ccbh.com> To: "Tom Wickline" <twickline@gmail.com>, <freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org> Subject: RE: Wine compatibility and performance on FreeBSD 7 Message-ID: <CB7CD38151C4884D8750222AEA73C67807FB4E00@1upmc-msx6.acct.upmchs.net> In-Reply-To: <53e3a9930712060959t6f446534xee6ba49d043dd70a@mail.gmail.com>
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This looks great. But for people who haven't used Wine of FreeBSD in ages - or ever. How about a guide on how you installed Wine on FreeBSD 7 and how you configured it so you could get to the point of installing Office. I'd sure like to run Rome Total War on FreeBSD. It one of the few things I actually still do on Windows. Rod Person Programmer (412)454-2616 http://www.ccbh.com "Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinion, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation." --Oscar Wilde=20 > -----Original Message----- > From: owner-freebsd-chat@freebsd.org=20 > [mailto:owner-freebsd-chat@freebsd.org] On Behalf Of Tom Wickline > Sent: Thursday, December 06, 2007 12:59 PM > To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org; freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org;=20 > freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org; freebsd-questions@freebsd.org;=20 > freebsd-user-groups@freebsd.org > Subject: Wine compatibility and performance on FreeBSD 7 >=20 > Hello Everyone, >=20 > I have a small blog about running Wine on Unix operating=20 > systems and over the last couple days I've been experimenting=20 > with Wine on FreeBSD 7 beta 2 (I see beta 4 is out, many thanks!) >=20 > If anyone here is interested I ran Office 97 and 2000 out of=20 > the box on FreeBSD 7beta no registry files or special hacks=20 > needed. Ive also run a couple small applications (Qicktime=20 > 7.1.6) (IE 5 5.5 6) and then some benchmarks 3DMark 2000v1.1,=20 > 3DMark2001SE, GL Excess and PC Mark04. In the future ill see=20 > if I can get 3DMark 2003 and 3DMark 2005 to run and produce=20 > results as well. >=20 > I don't know if any of you guys or gals are Gamers.... But=20 > just in case I also installed Halo in Wine and it runs about=20 > the same on FreeBSD as it does on Linux. With D3D, DDraw and=20 > OpenGL working most every game that is running in Wine should=20 > run on FreeBSD.. I don't know this as fact as I've only tried=20 > one Game and four Benchmarks, but it does look promising. >=20 > More info can be found here: >=20 > Wine-Review front Page: > http://wine-review.blogspot.com/ >=20 > Office 97/2000: > http://wine-review.blogspot.com/2007/12/microsoft-office-2000- > on-freebsd-7-with.html > http://wine-review.blogspot.com/2007/12/office-97-on-freebsd-w > ith-wine.html >=20 > IE, QT etc.. > http://wine-review.blogspot.com/2007/12/quicktime-716-on-freeb > sd-7-with-wine.html > http://wine-review.blogspot.com/2007/12/ies-4-freebsd-internet > -explorer-50-55.html >=20 > Benchmark results & Halo: > http://wine-review.blogspot.com/2007/12/benchmarking-wine-on-f reebsd-7.html > http:/http://wine-review.blogspot.com/2007/12/halo-combat-evol > ved-on-freebsd-with.html >=20 > Oh yea, were seeking contributors... if your interested in=20 > Wine on FreeBSD and believe you can help us out see : > http://wine-review.blogspot.com/2007/12/wine-review-is-current > ly-seeking.html >=20 > Thanks for your time......... >=20 > Cheers, >=20 > Tom Wickline > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-chat@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-chat > To unsubscribe, send any mail to=20 > "freebsd-chat-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >=20
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