Thread: what is wine

No, Wine just runs programs. I believe that all it does is emulate Win32, not run Win32. It does not run a DOS shell, or you might as well just use DOS. BTW, you can't compile a program, because it will generate Win32 code, and not Linux code, so you'll have to run WINE all the time, which isn't very fun.

but winapi is well documented so you know what you want done


any way
i run wine on my caldera openlinux 3.1
and can run all the win games solitaire et al
i can also run winzip windows media player etc
and listen to this even directx games
offcourse the games dont run theyu craaaawl

btw i've seen reports of people playing Caesar3 on lin thru wine
either they have gigs of ram and a yet unreleased x86 ultra fast processor or they are simply lying
any way its impressive stuff and i can also run exe i compiled for in win
to run console exes you cant just double click on them though you need to open a console like xterm and then
./whatever.exe
wine automatically loads these up

also visit www.lindows.com
in abt 12-18 months they promise that they'll have a lin based os that runs all win apps at real speed

thats something to look forward to
what do you think m$oft will do??
my guess is that they'll impose licence fees to run their software on another OS

jv

Hey Jasrajva, how much SWAP space have you allocated on your hard drive? That is probably the problem. For most people, WINE works just as fast or faster than Windows, I believe.

Hey Jasrajva, how much SWAP space have you allocated on your hard drive? That is probably the problem. For most people, WINE works just as fast or faster than Windows, I believe.

where are they ???

btw
i have a 133 meg swap partition

and i checked ... only about 15 megs were being used


also my comp is not really a 100m sprinter
so i checked it out on a friends pc which is absolutely loaded(well almost)

PIII 1Ghz 256 etc and it still is much slower than what win runs them on

am i doing something wrong here????

i want all the speed i can get

Hmm...Have you downloaded your latest video card drivers? Linux was designed to be as compatible as possible, but is the slowest without custom drivers.

i do have the best drivers available
im not telling you my system specs or you'll laaf

i ran ms hearts and it was way too slow

ok i'll tell you
i have a P1MMX166hz 64 MBram etc

now dont laaf ok
it runs very well in all i want it too
i run Win2k professional without a problem
office xp likewise
i also play age of kings the conquerors without a hitch

my linux installation works well too
but 'wine'd do act drunk and sluggish

not too bad but definitely noticable i tried to run a win cpu benchmarking tool and when it gave me an index of 51 on win it gave me just 16 on wine so thats why i said things run thrice as slow

jv

Hmm...I don't know what the problem is then. Oh well, if you are running Windows 2000, I guess there is no real need for Wine right?

Well, I just started playing with Wine (again after months and a fresh install of everything) and I must say, on my system at least, I am very impressed. It is a high end system and I made a virtual Windows partition or whatever, so maybe that helped... but I really did bench mark faster than when I run the benchmark proggy from Windows 2K directly. I think perhaps, these things are still very much dependent upon who-knows-what factors in your system. Maybe if I knew Linux internally a little better I would have a better idea..

(Ran some games really fast too! It was pretty cool. Oh, and armegetron is waaaaay too addictive.. might check it out.)

-Justin

(www.demolinux.org : convert the Windows users!)