[ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu on the BBC!

Dean Sas dean at deansas.org
Tue Oct 27 08:41:44 GMT 2009


Sean Miller wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 27, 2009 at 8:00 AM, Sean Miller <sean at seanmiller.net> wrote:
>> Why do none of these programmes ever mention Wine?
> 
> Come to think of it, why isn't Wine installed by default??

I don't know if there are any "official" reasons, but here are some
possibilities

* It's ugly
* It doesn't always work
* It introduces another method of installing software
* Political: Why write a Linux version of something when you can just
write the Windows software and have it work via wine?



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