On Tue, 2003-04-29 at 20:01, Michael Smith wrote: > anyone got wine compiled and working for rh9? or know where to find it? > I don't care about that export workaround... if that's not included it's > fine... > > BTW, does anyone know when Wine team is going to start adressing that > problem? > They already have begun, but my opinion is that it is too much work to get the open source version to work properly with many applications. I tried CrossOver Office 2.0 yesterday and it works amazingly well on my RH9 laptop. (I needed Internet Explorer 6.0 in order to figure out a problem with my university's online registration system.) I heard good things about WineX 3.0 too. The Open Source wine can usually be tweaked to do a lot of what the non-free wine distributions do, but to me it takes too much time and isn't worth it for my personal machine. I rather let these polished and low cost wine distributions do the hard part for me, so I have time to work on more important things. CrossOver and WineX *just work* in many cases. That's just my opinion though. (There are however times where I do feel studying and tweaking wine to run a particular program is well worth the effort. A local school here will soon be using Wine to run a Windows-only english language tutor software within a Linux computer lab. In order to save the school money and not buy CrossOver, I plan on tweaking free Wine to run that particular program.) Warren
