Am Fre, Apr 23, 2004 at 12:59:29 +1000 schrieb Darryl Luff: > SaravanaKumar wrote: > > >>... > > > Thanx. but users here complain that wine is slow. Any way i will try to > stick to the old version(2003122).But may be i need to buy some windooz > for the unpatient here. > Just for the record, I have been running mainly Office, Visio and Notes > on Wine for a fair while now, and also have a Windows 2000 install that > I dual-boot to occasionally. I haven't noticed any difference in > performance between Wine and Windows. Wine is more stable. The apps > still crash occasionally but they don't take the OS with them. That's almost what I noticed. Wine is mainly as fast as native for the mentioned applications and somehow as stable. > The only problem I've experienced with Wine is compatibility. Office 97 > runs fine but I haven't been able to get a later version to work. Office 2000 works fine for me. You have to install DCOM98 and IE6 beforehand. I use wine-20031212 with rh9 and wine-20040309 with fc1. Regards Joachim -- "Never touch a running system! Never run a touching system? Never run a touchy system!!!" _______________________________________________ wine-users mailing list wine-users@xxxxxxxxxx http://www.winehq.org/mailman/listinfo/wine-users