Windows on Linux App of the Year
 

When you just *have* to run windows.

--jeremy

I have been using VMware lately but I don't think it would qualify (to me) as Windows on Linux. It's a virtual machine so to me it's more Windows in Linux. I would love to get into QEMU but I don't have the time right now.

I think that wine does a great job and I use it for Windows on Linux. It's always my first stop and only if I can't run the programs I will fire up VMware player.

Wouldn't QEMU be Windows in Linux then?

Yes it would, to me anyway. It does the same virtualization thing as VMware but it's open source which is excellent. I use both virtualization and the wine-type emulators and to me they are different things (Windows in Linux vs. Windows on Linux). I'll always go for the emulator-type before virtualization but there are just things I can't get done in things like wine.

I would have voted for Crossover Office but it isn't really open source, like Cedega. I've used it in the past but I stopped because there's no sense in paying for the few extra abilities that wine doesn't offer. Wine is free. It's the same thing as VMware vs. QEMU. Like Crossover vs. Wine, I don't want to have to be paying for VMware when I can spend a little extra time and figure out QEMU. It might not be easy as running an installer but it's free to use. I use VMware player right now because it was free and I'm really just starting to feel this out. I like it but there are just some things I don't want to have to be "booting Windows" for when I could run it quicker in Wine... as long as it works. When I want to really get into the virtualization thing I'm going to learn to use QEMU so I don't have to be paying for something that's (at least currently) a toy to me.

WINE. It works for my needs and it has been tried and true.

I voted wine, though i use cedega for my games, but as wine is true OSS, and cedega is not, i voted wine! I do use wine for apps though!

Crossover Office.

All made a good progress this year. Win4lin should have kept support for their old version (win98), new pro version is a dead end for them. I vote for wine as it is the most difficult and important.

Running WARIII in Linux by cedege, is so excited!

Crossover Office works for me.

Vmware, I basically need to run windows for the fact I do ALOT tech support. And windows users seems to be the only ones who has "big problems" and when I don't remember all the windows places from the top of my head, I have to check it so my help is as clear as possible. I like helping people, I don't have problems with that. Even when some people are dumb enough to understand any instructions at all and makes me lose my nerves, I still like that 'job'.

Wine all the way. Course I have very few needs for any program. The only thing I run on wine right now is photoshop 7 but krita might just finally get me to the point I can go fully off the windows crutch.

I just installed vmware server, and I was astonished at what I was able to do with the virtual machine. I ran DOS fdisk, created a boot partition for DOS (for 80x86 assembly) and installed Win2000 to another partition. Everything ran just as in Windows from there. I was surprised at how easy it was to get the whole thing up and running in so little time.

However, I'm open to QEMU and Wine; I've never tried the former, but I have tried the latter in the past and wasn't entirely successful, perhaps they both merit further exploration. But the ability to so easily power on/power off a virtual machine (whether it's running Windows or any other OS) makes vmware server extremely attractive for my purposes.

Crossover works fine for me.

WINE. It works very well with the only Windows program I couldn't live without, PokerStars.

I have been using VMware for most of my windows need (though not the games) but I have stopped using it now. I have completely lost touch w/ windows. Though VMware is still installed i rarely fire it up anymore. still VMware did a good job of keeping me in touch w/ windows when i needed it. so the vote goes there.

Wine. It has made my transition from Windows so much easier.

Wine... it seems to run just about anything that I want it to (WinRAR [yeah, I'm too lazy to use unrar], Photoshop CS, Eovia Carrara 5)

Don't do much in the land of virtualization, but VMware would be it for me.

I use Crossover Office, but only to get Shockwave to work. Other than that I do not need any windows app, if I did I would still be running windows.

If you can spare the money, crossover office is by far the best. I use it when I need to fire up ms-office apps. Need speed and reliability.

I was going to say Parallels as it's cheaper than vmware and supports Macs -- you can now run Linux on a Mac (although as a Guest).

However I'd go for Vmware server as this is a FREE virtualisation product and runs Windows VM's just fine. If you don't need the features of the workstation product just download the vmware server - doesn't cost anything.

So my vote is for VMWARE SERVER.

Cheers
-K

vmware is getting better and better in time

Totally agree, wmware

Wine! It's getting better and better everyday :D

vmware and parallels
 

They're both wonderful, incredible, apps. I'd voted vmware only out of habit. People who still weren't caught by virtualization addiction should experiment the two!

wine devs communicate!
 

When I submit a bug report, I get a notice, and status
report/explanation in reply, and because their work allows me to play vst softsynths in linux in Mepis, Ubuntu, and Fedora6, I cast my vote for wine, and will consider purchase of commercial variants later.

Jeremy, make a note. Next year, you might consider calling this Virtalization/Emu App of the Year.

wine and cedega.... I use both of them to play win games... voted for wine because it's free and in too many cases works better than cedega... :D I only use cedega when I'm too lazy to tweak around wine...

Currently I run 1 big server split down to 4 independent virtual servers using GSX-SERVER (VMWare) and I think it is excellent.

Wine is good but i find it unreliable and difficult to configure. I'd only use it for running Internet Explorer as I need to test web sites on IE. I find that Wine only really works with old versions of IE and whenever you do Windows update it no longer works. Normally it is faster to boot a VM than it is to tweak wine to work with new DLLs.

Furthemore, you want to set up sendmail/Qmail or any server specific demon but don't have the time/skills? I guarantee you can find an iso that will boot from VMPlayer.

Unless you are a gamer, I think VMWare is the business.

windoz app
 

wine if u config it right

I haven't tried Wine but i know it is very old and good but i usually use CrosOver Office specially on MAndriva & Fedora!

A bottle of your finest wine me thinks

Wine. partly because of it's 'price'. Though I no longer see any point in wanting to corrupt my Linux installation with Windows.

Crossover office isn't perfect but it's doing the job so far. So I vote for it.

I vote for wine, because it's opensource, and the developers spend a lot of time on it, you can see a new version in almost every 2 weeks. It's just getting better and better :D

Emulators versus API Call translators
 

I voted for Qemu. I use it often on my Mac but I'm sure I could still learn more about it. I think next year emulators like Qemu should be have their own category. The very fact that WINE is an acronym for WINE is not an emulator makes me think WINE should have its own category since it really translates Windows API Calls into Linux native system calls. I can't wait for Qemu to mature some more so Darwine will become a workable solution for running all of my Windows apps on my PowerPC Macs running 10.4.8. I'm also curious to know why Bochs wasn't included in the poll too.

I know this is a little late, but VirtualBox definitely needs to be added!

Haven't tested it myself yet, but apparently performance-wise it's on par with VMware, which afaik is the fastest VM out there. The good news is that it's been GPL'd only five days ago, which means it's here to stay :)

There's plenty of 5-10 minute tutorials out there on how to get it started, just search on Google.

Wine :) :)

vmware is really good. for people with fast machines and good enough ram, takes the pain out of dual-booting.

Gotta have VMware; because video gaming just wouldn't be any fun without Windows For Workgroups 3.11 :)
--Queue

wine, it's just easy to use. I may when I'm feeling really ambitious look at VMware.

Wine works just fine in the rare instance I have to run Windows (:tisk:).

Wine because the winehq are doing so much hard work for free.

I voted for VMWare, although to be fair it is the only one I've ever tried. Seeing the list of options, I may have to experiment a bit. :)

If you're lumping virtual machines in with emulators (or not emulators, so what is wine then?) you should have VirtualBox in the poll. Faster than VMware and easier to set up and use.

Wine...since it supports the games I liked playing on Winblows.

vmware is very easy to use ,so i choose it

Who needs window emulators? DOSBox is all what I need.

Qemu - brought to my attention in 2006 - my award goes to Qemu. When wine leaves beta - my vote will be with wine.