Re: A non-Windows World...

["Koree A. Smith" <koree@accessus.net>]

Does Wine run win32 apps or just 16?  Just curious...

Koree

On Fri, 23 Jan 1998, Steven Pritchard wrote:

> 
> Koree A. Smith said:
> > I'm going to embark on a journey many think is impossible.
> [snip]
> > So, my desire is to go to
> > a completely Linux world, using Windows only in a few instances.
> [...]
> 
> FWIW, I've been there for a couple of years now.  I haven't had
> Windows installed on my computer since early '96.  (I actually just
> reinstalled it on my 250 meg drive a few weeks ago just so I could
> play some games...  Sad, huh?)
> 
> FWIW, Wine has gotten pretty good...  The last time I looked at it
> (going on a year ago now) it could run most Windows apps better than
> Wabi could.  It didn't look as pretty, but that's just because it
> didn't have the private font server so it could use Windows fonts the
> way Wabi does.  If you get Applix though, it comes with Gallium's
> TrueType-rendering font server.  That will probably help Wine quite a
> bit.
> 
> Steve
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Koree A. Smith
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