[ale] CrossOver Office VS Win4Lin

[keith frost]

Wine can work with or without windows.
some apps like to have a native dll to run correctly,
but many will run with the wine/builtin dll.so's

--- cfowler <cfowler at outpostsentinel.com> wrote:
> I also noticed I did not have to have a copy of
> Windows loaded.  Is this
> true for Wine as well?
> 
> 
> On Thu, 2002-06-20 at 13:37, keith frost wrote:
> > ease of configuration, being able to install to a
> > local setup without being root.
> > 
> > it's not the end all, but it is pretty slick.
> > 
> > --- cfowler <cfowler at outpostsentinel.com> wrote:
> > > CrossOver Office is using Wine.  What are the
> > > providing that I will not
> > > get if I just use the lastest Wine?
> > > 
> > > Chris
> > > 
> > > On Thu, 2002-06-20 at 13:12, Michael Hirsch
> wrote:
> > > > On Thu, 2002-06-20 at 12:59, cfowler wrote:
> > > > > I'm evaluating CrossOver Office and Win4Lin.
> 
> > > There are merits to both. 
> > > > > Currently I'm having problems with
> ie6setup.exe
> > > locating download
> > > > > sites.  It just seems to hang on searching
> for
> > > download sites.  Which do
> > > > > you guys think is the best product for the
> buck?
> > > > 
> > > > Win4lin is a more complete solution.  More
> > > programs should run under
> > > > it.  It is also a little more intrusive since
> it
> > > requires kernel
> > > > patches.
> > > > 
> > > > I'm embarrassed to say that I'm now using
> > > CrossOver Office to run
> > > > Outlook and it seems to work well, though I
> > > haven't robustly tested it.
> > > > 
> > > > --Michael
> > > > 
> > > > 
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