On Sun, 2011-03-27 at 23:04 -0500, jimhackthorn wrote: > i got a idea instead of creating wine from scratch witch is a > extremely slow process why not make wine as a utility that pulls all > files and binary's needed from a windows in stallion disc and wine > could be set up with the wine drive but with actual windows binary's. > You've entirely missed the point, which is to avoid the use of Windows, or parts thereof, as far as possible. That is, after all, why you're running Linux. I for one have no intention of owning an illegal copy of Windows or of buying a legal one. If I can't run a legally acquired Windows program using Wine or Dosbox then I'll use use the native Linux equivalent, write my own or go without. Martin
