Re: [Sheflug] Re: TopPage info for Sheffield Linux User Group

[Al Hudson <nospam [at] york.ac.uk>]

Paul Sims wrote: 
> Just looked at  the page below - this needs an aparrently app-optimised
> wine to run (downloadable from the same page), so it's not **really** for
> Linux, just wine-compat windows code :(

Not necessarily. Wine does two things: emulates a running Windows system,
and provides a compatibility layer for native Linux programs to access
Windows API functions. 

> It's becoming depressingly regular that these major s/w announcements
> conceal this sort of "porting" so we all end up running the same dodgy
> windows code under quasi-emulation.

I don't see why the linux code would be less dodgy than the windows code
by the same programmers?

Richard wrote:
> I had a look myself and it looks like a Red Hat rpm.

It's not - it's compatible with SuSE, Turbolinux, etc...

Cheers,

Alex.


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