Windows on Linux App of the Year
 

When you just *have* to run windows.

--jeremy

What no qemu?

QEMU has been added.

--jeremy

I'm voting qemu because while it's still not as good as VMWare, it's made far more progress this year than any other similar software.

Wine got definitely better last year, especially now I have WineTools to configure it ;)

Wine has improved enough for daily use
 

Wine has improved so much in the last year that I can run most programs on it that I used to use the other, closed options for. In reality, though, I don't use it at all except to check my work in MS Wordview before my file goes out the door or in IE before I put up a new template on my website.

I didn't find any of the emulators good enough (I tried cedega + wine, slower and a lot buggier than on win) so I dual-boot. Of those I still voted QEMU, as I don't run windows in it but I test new distros and stuff from time to time.

If it was not for crossover...I propably would have moved to Win for a while

Qemu, not for windows, but for testing .iso's before burning (sometimes)

Please update Parallels Workstation 2.0 from Parallels.

Thx
Doc

Wine. It works very well with the one Windows app I couldn't live without: PokerStars

wine is progressing in a very good way.

When I absolutely must run windows; I'm at work and don't have a choice on what OS to run on my PC. When I want to use windows because I want to run application XYZ (because I'm more familiar with how to do ABC via XYZ); then I reboot into Windows. Emulators just don't cut it for me.

Crossover. But it wouldn't work without wine.
Rebooting is even better.

VMWare works absolutely brilliantly, when you must do things like "remote login" to XP systems. I run it on my laptop so I can run Linux and do dev work while I log into my work machine at my day-job and do other dev work :)

WINE works reasonably well for simpler applications, I've been using it for years and it has improved, but I'm always running up against its rough edges

I vote for wine, it has improved alot lately

hmm..:scratch: try to find an alternative:p

I vote Wine as a huge amount of effort has been put in recently to get rid of bugs whilst still adding huge numbers of features. It is very rare nowadays that I can't get a program to do anything on it, and a fair few work perfectly now. With the addition of the winecfg tool and different configurations for different programs, Wine has become fairly nice to use. Also, it integrates better than any emulator and allows Windows programs to be ported to Linux.

i would vote wine but, qemu with the acceleration does what i only need windows for, my mp3 player.

I am new to Win 4 Linux type apps and my first try was with WINE and I was pleasly surprised so I voted for that. I may have to try a few of the others on the list :p

Wine. it is fun playing some windows based games in a linux enviroment.

What about colinux? If one "has to run another OS", but still want linux there...

Er, Cygwin.

Oh no that's the wrong way round.
(or is it the *right* way round?)

Me, I never want win apps on linux.
But perl and a shell is useful when
I must use DOS against my will.

Wine is great
 

Wine cause it has none of the HAL and/or CPU emulation crap of anything else, and doesn't need WinDOS files like Win4Lin. Also did I mention cause it's really fast?
Plus i can play StarCraft in a window.

Wine made some impressive strides, especially in the second half of the last year...

Voted for VMWare because it can not only be used for Windows programs, but also for useful things.

The oldest one fellows. I just love it.
Can anyone give me more reasons for another one.

CX supports the accounting apps we need with our business quite well. They made the linux switch possible for us. What more can I say? (VMWare started us with the switch, but it was too resource hungry).

Wine. The guys made a good job with their last release. The second choice would be CrossOver.

crossover and wine
 

If it weren't for codeweavers, wine would probably be dead. I have been running crossover since it's first release and I think the product rocks.

The last time I looked at VMware it was way too expensive. I haven't looked into it for a few years, but last time I checked it was over $300. For that price I can dual boot thank you.

VMWare for remote login? Don't you know anything about rdesktop?

None of them. If and only _if_ I have to use windows, I have an old harddisk in my case, which I can plug in.

I'm running simple application wine

Crossover works great, but if all else fails VMware is the choice.
Just dont like having to load it up just to run 1 app

The emulators aren't good enough for me, so I reluctantly dual-boot. The only Windows apps I use are commercial games, which I haven't a hope of running on Linux.

I was absolutely thrilled to get Quickbooks working with the latest version of Wine. Have waited years for this. Still can't get usb scanner or twain drivers working though, and I want my Textbridge OCR software to work. After that I'm off MS XP for good!

Wine
 

Wine is the best!

Qemu
 

Booting Linux in Windows rules :cool:

VMware Player works great too: http://hometown.aol.com/drewm0ney/test010.jpg

It should work both ways, there is a win & nix download.

There are many emulators - Svista, Qemu (free), Bochs (slower, because of CPU emulation, but this is good sometimes, because everything is emulated) and even Virtual Server/Virtual PC (former Connectix Virtual PC - Windows and Mac versions). Under Linux - you know, there are many DOS emulators. Dosbox can run Windows 3.1.
If you absolutely need to run Windows applications - crossover, cedega are very good choices, especially if you want to play Windows game without Linux port.
I can't imagine another reason...

wine
 

With the sidenet scripts. http://sidenet.ddo.jp/winetips/config.html

Wine
It's open source.
It's innovative.
It might be the first successful crossplatform API.
...

I used to keep a paid for copy of Crossover Office around but wine has because so functional that its no longer necessary. It has earned its stripes as far as my needs (which admittedly is not much.)

Bobby

For those who haven't used Crossover Office in the past year, you should check into it. Very nice work, those folks have done. I realize it isn't "free" but is well worth the minimal price, IMO.

What about... "I use Linux, I don't need no stinkin' Windows!" ;-)

(This is said, of course, with tongue firmly planted in cheek).

Cedega, will run commercial windows games in linux.

:p


I don't have any use for windows, or windows based applications. 100% linux here.
and 99.95% open source.

Wine works well for me. I'm using most of the time just IE and from time to time Outlook when troubleshooting some customer's cases.

Interesting point that my usage of IE is gradually going down. For instance one of the Australian bank had a bug in their web server that's why I had to use IE before, now they fixed it, so I can just naturally running Firefox.

[QUOTE=Jaqui]Cedega, will run commercial windows games in linux.

[QUOTE]

Sorry, should've been more specific. I don't have a hope of running the games on Linux on my computer - would maybe need more RAM and certainly a more suitable graphics card.

Saying that the emulators weren't good enough for me was, in retrospect, an unfair statement. The truth is, my machine isn't good enough to run the emulators.

Well, Ajcham, Cedega works sometimes faster then Windows. Also - with Cedega you will have DX8 support in videocards that don't have hardware DX 7,8,9 support and sometimes they are abandoned by their creators, or they even doesn't exist on the market. Example - 3dfx voodoo's, S3 Savage, even S3 Virge, Matrox Millenium and other. Of course 3dfx videocards has a new 3rd party drivers - 3dfxzone.it, voodoofiles.com...
So, surprisingly, you can play some games better then on the some computer in dual boot windows...

VMware work well. A bit pricey though. Still, it gets my vote.

sorry-crossover office
 

im sorry-i am a origional and classic when it comes to linux (i like debian-not ubuntu-and i like open-source and gpl)
i love the wine project is one of the greatest projects ever.
it cant emulate to many applications.
i voted for crossover office b/c even though its not free-the developers have done tremendous work and thanks to them ITUNES CAN RUN ON LINUX

i dont have crossover-the only windows app i need is premiere (kino doesn't come EVEN CLOSE to cutting it)-in which case i boot into my small windows partition