DrCuddles

Cool! Might download it and have a look, but i always do that, just put it on a Virtual PC and forget about it hehe

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The Mandriva distro here saw a three cd set for installation. The OS is free but you simply pay for the cost of a cd and shipping to see it already on disk. There's no profit overhead just basic costs.

That is precisely right. I thought the name was changed a few years back. If I end up dumping Solaris 10 I'll replace that with the Mandriva distro already onhand here. I thought wine was also a free linux program since no one has mentioned that one.

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I'm downloading Mandriva now, I'll just make a new partition for it. I already mentioned Wine in the first post.

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i thought you could juse any windows software on it :| oh well i guess i was wrong dont think ill bother downloading it now

Irishwhistle

Wine? Pretty much any Windows software. The only problem is that when something needs software like DirectX it won't work on Wine. It is pretty good though, I have several Windows programs running flawlessly on my Ubuntu desktop.

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WINE is not a program per se and it is not a virtualization software and it is not an emulator. It is a set of APIs (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Applica...ming_interface) that allow you to run windows software on a different OS, ie Linux, Unix, OS X. Things like Cross over use the same technology as wine, or darwine for OS X.

The problem is, that there is no money thrown into these APIs, so development is slow and buggy and is a drawn out process. Obviously MS fears any kind of major open source software that would make them useless. Some developers will port their software or at least post the source code so it can be configured for WINE, or whatever.

The problem is, that don't expect it to work flawlessly or at all sometimes, because certain functions of the application may not be supported or may be buggy and it will crash. I have seen lots of windows applications try to install and fail and have seen lots install and run, but crash with the typical windows registry errors and what not (these APIs do put a virtual install of windows on your machine so to speak, with a registry and what not). So, its not always the open source communities fault, but then again don't expect a software developer company to fork over its own time and resources to improve its performance in an open source market. It is basically one huge catch 22.

DrCuddles

Nice explanation dude, we need things like this all the time

Sure as hell tought me a few things

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