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    Tom Wickline

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  1. Comment - MS: No Updates for Virtualized Windows

    (Feb 22, 2005 - 1:34 AM)

    If you only knew what you were talking about, you could possiably post a message to this forum that wasn't toatly stupid.. Here is some advice, if you don't know what your talking about .. You should keep your mouth shut or you will look stupid!
    Someone with the IQ that you posses probability
    cleans the rest rooms at a local burger joint anyway.

  2. Comment - MS: No Updates for Virtualized Windows

    (Feb 21, 2005 - 10:00 PM)

    Hello All,

    I would suggest that some people here read the Wine FAQ. And I plan to add a couple sections about Microsofts WGA this week.

    I keep reading post, here as well as other forums
    about how Windows sucks and why would anyone want to use Wine... Two years ago I added this to our FAQ.. You can check CVS if you think I wrote this yesterday.

    http://www.winehq.org/si...#WHO-MAINTAINS-THIS-FAQ

    [Q]2.6. Why would anyone want Wine? Doesn't Windows suck?

    [A] First Wine is not about running Windows but about running Windows applications.

    So if all your computing needs are fulfilled by native Unix applications, then you do not need Wine and should not be using it. However, if you depend on one or more of the tens of thousands of Windows applications, then Wine is the best way to use it without giving up on Unix. Let's look at the alternatives to see why:

    The most obvious alternative is to dual-boot. This is the solution that provides the best compatibility. However it requires that you acquire a Windows license and then dedicate a good chunk of your hard-drive to Windows. But the worst is yet to come. Each time you will want to use that application you will have to reboot to Windows. This is especially significant if external factors dictate when you must use this application (e.g. credit card to process, email to retrieve from a Lotus Notes server). Then you will find yourself forced to close all your Linux applications just to run that one Windows application. You may quickly get tired of this, or will find that such a situation is impossible to justify in a business environment.

    The next solution is to install virtual machine emulation software such as VMWare, Win4Lin or Plex86. Then you can use windows applications without suffering such a big disruption. But it still requires that you acquire a Windows license and dedicate as much disk space to Windows. Furthermore you will pay for the added convenience: if using VMWare or Win4Lin you have to buy another license, and more importantly you now have to dedicate a good chunk of your computer's memory to the virtual machine. Performance will take a significant hit too.

    Using Wine lets you avoid all of that overhead: Windows license, hard-drive space required by Windows, memory and performance hit taken by emulated virtual machines. Now you can start your Windows application straight from your regular desktop environment, place that application's window side by side with native applications, copy/paste from one to the other, and run it all at full speed.

    Tom Wickline