winex and others question
 

what do i have to do to use any of these programs?
am i correct to think that they let me run some windows programs and or games?

thanks.

(excuse my typing this laptop's keyboard is new to me still so i mess up alot on it)

anyone?

Yes,

WineX is free in the CVS form, or $5 a month for the right to download it in binary form from Transgamings website.

WineX does a good job with games compared to others since that is what it is written for :)

Another "one" is wine. It is made primarily for applications. Codeweavers wine

http://wine.codeweavers.com/

is one of the best versions of this IMO. This runs apps very well also.

you can use both of thse side by side if you get the $5 winex and free wine.

Also Crossover Office, costs $40, runs things like Office and Lotus and Quicken nearly flawlessly.

http://www.codeweavers.com/products/office/

Any more questions, just let us know.

Jkrohn

where can i get winex in cvs form?
and codeweavers is mainly for apps, but winew can run some apps?

Hey, where's lost-and-found??

He got winex working in mandrake 9.

He said he downloaded the codeweaver's version at

http://www.codeweavers.com/technology/wine/download.php

I used that wine version. Installed it using their automated installer (just follow the stuff on the page).
After installation, it should just work. Oh yeah, if you have mandrake then there's a little problem, you won't have xmessage, which Wine needs.

Mandrake renamed xmessage to gmessage. So you have to do this:
in command, su root,
ln -s /usr/X11R6/bin/gmessage /usr/X11R6/bin/xmessage

Any more questions just let us know :t

David

For WineX in CVS form check out...
http://krohn.dhs.org:200/linux.html#eleventh

Big w00t and a thanks to spookyeddy for that one.

Jkrohn

just out of me not knowing... whats CVS form?

i'll check it out in a min on my laptop one thing at a time.

CVS is just a place that developers upload the source to. It is updated nightly, but no support is provided and you have to compile from source.

If you pay $5 a month (stopping at any time) you get .rpm, .deb. and .tgz for install packages as well as support.

Jkrohn

ok i'm missing something..

i'm trying to fallow the directions at that site but when i try to cvs i get command not found. where am i sopoused to do this at?

Arg silly cvs.

lost on that whole part of the deal.
i still don't know which one i want to try.. I will be able to switch/remove them if i decide i can live without correct?
but i only want to run maybe 2 things or more that i need windows to do. 1 quickcam software 2 worms world party. and maybe some other game but my hdd space is limited like crazy on laptop. thats why there is the other thread where i'm trying to get help setting up samba or somethign to use files over the network. thanks if you can help