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.
