Linux-vs-Windows (was Re: Augury and reading ...)

[Jay R. Ashworth]

On Sat, Jul 24, 2004 at 04:51:11PM -0400, John Esak wrote:
> I just looked at the SuSE page for their new desktop client. Picture of the
> box and everything. It clearly states on the page (several times) that NO
> other software is needed... nothing else required... etc., etc. Doesn't this
> seem a little disingenuous if everyone knows you need something else to run
> any mainstream apps that you might have?

To me, no.  I understand that apps are written to run on a specific
operating system, and that you need a version, if one is available, for
the OS you run: Mac apps won't run on Windows, Windows apps won't run
on BeOS, BeOS apps won't run on SCO OS, and SCO apps won't run on
Linux.

*Natively*, and that's the keyword here.

SuSE Pro 9.0 actually *includes* Wine, and would likely have updated it
if I'd asked; but grabbing an RPM for SuSE from winehq.org was pretty
trivial.

>                                           Where does one get WinE and would
> it be an easy install on any Linux, etc. Biggest question of all, why
> wouldn't SuSE write whatever WinE is and include it in their "so complete"
> dsktop???  To me it is almost the old car salesman thing of "Oh, you want
> wheels with that???"  :-)

"Brakes will be included in version 1.2; it will be a nominal cost
upgrade."  Yeah.  :-)

See above; it is included, though it's a touch on the old side.

Worth trying though.  The *kicker* is getting stuff to install; this is
the part of the gig that the commercial Crossover package has igured
out nicely; standard Windows installers will run there.

Cheers,
-- jra
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