[NTLUG:Discuss] Running Windows Apps in Linux...

[Kyle_Davenport@compusa.com]

I've played with this quite a bit too.   I just want to supplement Chris
Cox's excellent advice.  Codeweaver's is an active developer of wine, and
all there gpl work eventually gets into the official wine tree.   So, for
free, you can start with the official wine, and your ap now has a good
chance of running.   However, Codeweaver's does provide very good support
for their products - wine, wine-Office, and crossover plugin.  I use their
crossover plugin for instance and it's very slick and easy to use, and they
have even helped with non-standard plugins too.   I encourage you to
support them too.

Getting windows apps working is still practically an "art-form", requiring
some hackery.   Your best approach would be a dual boot system, and using
the windows partition as the wine window's tree.  That way you can still
install app's in windows, and have a better chance that the installed
product will work under wine.  You'll have the option of using the window's
or wine dll's too.

As long as the wine install goes to a different directory you can have any
number of them.   I have balanced an official wine, codeweavers, wine-x,
hp's, corel's and ibm's at the same time, for instance.

check out http://www.frankscorner.org/wine/