apparently the only way to acquire winex without a subscription is via cvs, but i'm not exactly sure how to do this. can anyone help me?

search around.. you can find rpm's and sources for it. there is also a perl script out there to install the CVS version.. search for it as well

i found instructions on transgaming.org and got Diablo II working, although it was a lot harder than it should have been. at least it works...

If you can't get winex to work, there is no reason not to try regular wine (www.winehq.org). Regular wine is very easy to install since it has binary packages released regularly.

You should also be knowing that WineX and Wine are almost the same thing. WineX is born out of Wine, and WineX is tied to Wine by the GPL license. Some libraries of WineX are closed source, but that still mean a lot (maybe the majority) of improvements brought by WineX are also applied to Wine. Wine is the foundation on which WineX is built. We shouldn't forget to credit Wine for that.

WineX is not the holy Grail (neither is currently Wine). The fact that WineX and Wine are so tightly related means that one cannot be so far ahead of the other. You will still have plenty of research to do to get some programs working with one or another. Personally, the more I familiarize with Wine, the more I wonder what WineX does more or what WineX can do more.

I tried compiling WineX from cvs once and had problems. Instead of figuring what was going on, I simply went towards Wine, as I had used it a little and knew it at least worked.

You can get an Winex real rpm version here:

http://www.filesearching.com/cgi-bin...x3&t=f&d=&l=en

Is there a difference between wine and winex? Will one make games wun faster than the other (such as deus ex). Are they both equally compatible and stable?

the difference is that winex has a more mature directx implementation the vanilla wine. wine is working on its own directx implementation, however, and most things are working, aside from direct3d, which winex has.