Hey guys. Question: Which is the best distro for running, say, WINE? Thanx

the naughtster

the two have no real relation. any distro should run it just as badly as the next.

I don't know... Maybe some run it worse than others.

Wine worked pretty well for me under Mandrake 8.2 but I can't get it to work at all under Mandrake 9.0

I'm reluctant to go to release 9.1 because 9.0 is enough worse than 8.2 that I hate to think what might happen if I "upgrade."

i am currently running mandrake 9.1 - every problem i had with mandrake 9.0 has been fixed with 9.1 - this includes things like MESA, OSS, ALSA, nvidia drivers, WINE, networking etc - and it also starts faster than mandrake 9! which is an added bonus!!!

I recommend moving to 9.1 from 9.0!!!!

Well, then, that encourages me to make the move. Maybe I'll be visiting CheapBytes later today...

The only thing I really want WINE for is to be able to use my electronic dictionaries; there's not a chance in hell they'll ever be made available on a Linux platform. If they were available, I'd purchase them instantly.

I would say I'd like to use Encyclopedia Britannica (desktop version), too, but I quit using it, even while still enslaved to Windows, when I found it required--REQUIRED--Internet Explorer 5 or later to be installed for it to work. Not even a Microsoft product, and it requires not only the Microsoft Operating $y$tem, but another MS product. I call that--gall, for want of a harsher term.

wine is really easy on gentoo. Get wine and winesetuptk and everything is done for you.

debian apt-get install wine

i don't get easier than that

I was able to install it and set it up under Mdk 9.0, it just wouldn't work.

Going to install 9.1 soon and see if that's better.