[plug] WINE is doing well
Denis Brown
dsbrown at cyllene.uwa.edu.au
Tue Jul 13 14:05:03 WST 2004
At 13:47 13/07/2004 +0800, Chris Caston wrote:
>I just bought a laser cd labeling kit and installed the bundled win32
>software "Design Express CD label maker" and it is running flawlessly.
>Very stable, very fast, very smooth and looks good enough to eat.
>
>I had no Windows dll files and I just invoked wine and the setup.exe and
>everything worked fine.
>
>I can see now they are getting to the point where they can actually make
>a .9 release.
I've used the CodeWeavers Crossover Office version of wine to run ISI
Research's EndNote software on a Gentoo system. Very very impressed, to
the point we'll spring some dollars their way :-) How the heck they
emulate the Windows Registry has got me tossed but what the heck. Now if
only SPSS would play the game :-( (PSPP does not cut it, I'm sorry to say.)
Cheers,
Denis
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