[PLUG] Yes a basic wine question

[Percival, Ray]

Oh well the only reason I can think of to use wine is for games just because if you can run *nix at work why would you want winders. But then again you might find that you have a hard time getting something like MapInfo running without a winders partition. In which case you have just defeated the whole purpose in a business setting. 

And just because some of us play games don't assume that we don't work. Its just that for real work winders offers no tools I or anyone I know needs or wants. Therefore in my mind the only reason to run a winders emulator would be the occasional game. 

-----Original Message-----
From: Rich Shepard 
Sent: Friday, October 25, 2002 9:34 AM
To: plug at lists.pdxlinux.org
Subject: RE: [PLUG] Yes a basic wine question


On Fri, 25 Oct 2002, Percival, Ray wrote:

> Try winex. Much better support for real games and after all that would be
> the whole point of wine.

  Boo! Hiss! There are folks who actually use computers for work tasks and
not just for games, music and movies. Strange breed we are, I admit, but
there it is.

  I'm trying to get MapInfo running over wine so folks that need that
application for their business can defenestrate and still have access to a
critical application. It's not a game even though it's built for the
Microsoft environment.

Rich


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