VMWare / Wine

Derek Broughton news at pointerstop.ca
Fri Feb 23 18:28:34 UTC 2007


Jeffrey F. Bloss wrote:

> Derek Broughton wrote:
> 
> 
>> plus any software that requires any DLLs or fonts or any other
>> Windows component, that has not been freely released by Microsoft.
> 
> Which would also cover the vast majority of Windows applications. ;)

Well, strictly not.  These days, Wine can pretty well work without requiring
those DLLs or fonts (or any other bits of Windows), but there will always
be some apps that use a quirky and so-far un-emulated DLL (please don't
anybody tell me Wine isn't an emulator...).
-- 
derek





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