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A look at Wine

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by jck

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This past Friday night, I took a look at Wine. It's a product which creates a virtual Windows drive on your Linux box and emulates service to that virtual Windows allowing you to load Windows applications.

I decided just to mess around with it a bit, so I loaded all sorts of fonts and what not and it seemed fairly fast.

Then, I decided to download and install Eudora 6.2. After this, I ran the program. Given it ran the software flawlessly, it was horrendously slow. I don't know if this is because I had something configured wrong or I need to optimize something, but I could type and it seemed like the text updates in a textbox were running about 20 baud.

Of course, the version of Wine I was using was a bit older and there are implementations of products now (Win4Lin, Cedega, etc) which are more enhanced and robust (from what I hear).

I'll be looking at Win4Lin soon to see what it offers.

Anyone else ever messed with Wine? Let me know...I'd be interested in hearing your experiences.

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by dr dij

I haven't installed it, but from the name WINE
(Wine Is Not an Emulator) it should run fast. They've written replacements in linux for the .dlls, not emulated them.

by dave151

I've found that if I have setiathome running in the background, I see the same performance degratation you're describing.

So on any of my 'win' apps running through wine, I use a shell script to 'killall setiathome' before starting up the app.

by jck

thanks for the tip. :)

This weekend is gonna have some more Linux exploration.

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