On Tuesday 20 December 2005 08:56, Ivan Leo Puoti wrote: > Nigel Henry wrote: > > Hi Ivan. This is just fine. If I can get a binary install of Boinc with > > GUI, I will run that > > You can get it from http://boinc.berkeley.edu/download.php > look for the Linux/x86 section. It's a self extracting archive, package > manager is required. Yes I've DL'd that already in anticipation of installing on Wine failing. > > > Now I may just be very stupid, but seeing a post to the wine-users list > > asking for folks running seti@home to join wine's team. Logically you > > appeared to be asking for folks who were running the Windows version of > > Boinc under Wine on a Linux based machine to join Wine's team as a sort > > of challenge to the Windows users that are running Boinc. > > No, we'll never ever be able to do that, we're competing with Microsoft > Corporations, not all the Windows users. > > > I would still prefer to run Boinc on Wine, more to try out Wine's > > capabilities. I'm also trying various music apps left over from my > > Windows days. Some work on Wine, Some don't. It's all a bit of an > > academic exercise, but definately without IE coming into the equation. > > Nigel. > > The plan is to write an IE replacement at some point, not a browser but > something that provides the features programs need. However this doesn't > appear to be a very high priority now. In the mean time I believe running > the native linux version of BOINC is the best solution. I look forward to the time when IE will be replaced with something that allows such apps as Boinc to work without the need for IE. In the meantime I will persevere with the native Linux version as you suggest. Thanks for the help. Nigel. > Ivan. > > > _______________________________________________ > wine-users mailing list > wine-users@xxxxxxxxxx > http://www.winehq.org/mailman/listinfo/wine-users _______________________________________________ wine-users mailing list wine-users@xxxxxxxxxx http://www.winehq.org/mailman/listinfo/wine-users
