[lug] WINE

[Bill Gjestvang]

I finally broke down and bought Crossover Plugin.  Now I can watch all 
those movie trailers on Quicktime.  :-)  Works great.  Flash6 also works 
nicely (Linux is at Flash5 yet.)  There are plenty of other things it 
runs, but I mainly bought it for Quicktime.

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Drew Lane wrote:
>>
>>
>> Give it a try.  Not everything works, but you don't have a heck of a lot
>> to lose.  I don't know if it installed on RedHat by default, but you can
>> get it easily.
>>
> There are certain programs I use on Win that I require before
> I could ever completely switch over to a  Linux desktop.  For
> example, I use Adobe and Macromedia software extensively
> (e.g. PhotoShop and Flash) and I'm sure there are a lot of other
> people in my situation. 
> I know there are some nice programs out there for Linux that will
> do something similar, but I already know how to use these programs
> and the time investment makes it unlikely of switching any time soon.
> 
> So, I think getting something like WINE to work well under Linux
> would be important to the future of Linux unless someone could
> convince companies like Adobe to port their apps to Linux.
> 
> Since we are starting to see many of these programs available for
> Mac OS X, I would think it wouldn't be that difficult to get them
> running under Linux.  What's holding them back?
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Drew
> 
> 
> 
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