Date: Thu, 27 Jan 2011 12:08:08 -0700 From: Jarrod Slick <jarrod.sl@gmail.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: wine questions Message-ID: <4D41C298.7030709@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <4D41BDF6.5080904@blakemfg.com> References: <4D41BDF6.5080904@blakemfg.com>
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On 1/27/11 11:48 AM, Fred wrote: > Hello, > > I need to buy an expensive logic device programmer that connects to a > PC through USB. Unfortunately, the user software that make it go only > runs on Bill Gates' cancerous, virus-infested, scourge of the Earth > excuse for an OS which I do not use. Is it likely to work ok using > wine? What type of programs do not work well with wine? There is a > supported, commercial version of wine that runs on Linux. Would I be > better off buying that and running it on the FBSD Linux emulation? > > Best regards, > Fred > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" Chaining emulators just sounds like a bad idea; I would guess that your risk of complications increases exponentially when doing this, and I would bet anything that your performance decreases exponentially as well. Also, I doubt the company that sells the commercial version of wine would support their software when running on untested platforms (e.g., FBSD w/ Linux Emulation). Further, that company probably has a list of supported software and won't vouch for their product's ability to run anything outside of that list. If you absolutely must run it under a *nix, I would go with Linux for this project. If you'd set dogma aside, though, you would probably see that Windows is your best bet for this project. A close second (if you had all the time in the world) would be writing drivers yourself for your desired platform.
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