Windows apps compatibility

Forum: Other Help Topics
Topic: Windows apps compatibility
started by: rb210

Posted by rb210 on June 04 2005,08:32

First of all let me say that u guys have done a great job making this OS, and I am a DIALUP user so i am even more thankful!
But I wanna know whether u guys can make/or there is an emulator compatible with ur version of Linux, that cun run Windows games, apps like MS Office, Photoshop, etc....so THAT this OS can be used as a stand-alone OS on a PC, also i wanna know if this OS is FULLY and UNIVERSALLY DRIVER COMPATIBLE. All this I wanna know cause i hope that it can (its diffcult) but can beat Windows in some fields...

Posted by chickenman on June 06 2005,03:04

WINE would be the best bet, it stands for Wine Is Not (an) Emulator, and its a windows emulator...

I am sure i've heard of people running WINE under DSL a quick search for wine would probably solve your problem.

It sounds like a good idea, i would have done it my self but i have this lazyness problem...

Do note that if you want directX support you'll need a diffrent version of WINE called (off the top of my head) celedia or something and youre supposed to pay for it. I have heard theres a way around paying, that you can get the beta version (not the latested STABLE relese) and apparently that works ok most of the time...

Good luck!

Posted by RoGuE_StreaK on June 06 2005,06:27

Well, the other option is to track down apps and games that run natively in Linux.
OpenOffice kicks MS Office (I've actually got them running side by side under windoze, basically haven't touched MS Office since installing OO, it does exacly the same thing).
The GIMP is quite a powerful rival for Photo$hop.
I have UT2004 running natively under DSL (with the XFree86 and nVidia packages installed).

But yeah, there's still a few things that don't have native comparisons, eg. Flash. If I could get Flash running under DSL, then I'd be 90% of the way to fully switching to DSL...

Posted by irkab1rka on June 21 2005,01:01

sourceforge.net/projects/winex

Posted by mangatono on July 07 2005,13:03

HI, I write because problem is with Wine.

I readed, wine instaled need max 250MB It si true

I compille wine 20050628.tar.gz on DSL with gcc standard (mydsl appt )

by compilation wine writes error devel package not isnstalled, I downloaded devel, bud it not working, have you devel what works? can you give me a link ? please, help.