Hi there

I'm trying to get a number of games going with Linux, Fedora Core 2, but have had no success whatsoever--no luck at all with Wine. In fact, I put in any kind of windows or windows-compatible cd and i see, after digging through Konquerer, a bunch of files with oriental characters (which i can't read)--and at times Konquerer hangs when trying to view anything on these discs. Any suggestions?

also, my fiancee would like to continue with her previous chat group, which is on Sympatico/MSN....it's a trivia group...i can't seem to be able to make any headway there either...tried to install either Netscape or IE (shudder) using wine, with no success. what good is wine then? am i using it correctly? am i missing something?

currently, in the terminal, either as a superuser or not, i've typed " wine [program.exe]"...

help!
Erhard

You may have to buy the commercial version of WINE - codewaevers Cross Platform or something like that.

Regards
Shelton.

I suggest using VMware if you have atleast 512 MB of memory and your computer is faster than 500 MHz. Wine works on some programs that does not depend on to many dll files. Programs that depend on a lot of dll files like Internet Explorer or Office suits (Word, Excel, Powerpoint, Access, Outlook) are a pain to run with wine. You do not need to install Netscape with wine because there is a Linux version. Mozilla and Netscape are the same look and feel so I suggest picking mozilla's software because it gets updated more.

As for your netscape/IE dilemna, Use Mozilla. Mozilla Suite is the open-source version of Netscape and looks exactly the same except the loading icon is a red dinosaur instead of the Netscape Logo. Also you can try Mozilla FireFox which a lighter, cleaner web browser. If you use Firefox though you will need to get a seperate e-mail client but once again the Mozilla project has you covered with Thunderbird. And all of these programs will run in Linux without a windows compatibility program.

Check out Mozilla here

PS The Mozilla project was founded by Netscape/AOL so there is no chance of repercusions from them that Mozilla is just like Netscape.

Crossover is a version of Wine designed for office-type applications, such as Word, Excel, and IE. For games, you want Cedega, which includes better DirectX support and works with various kinds of copy-protection schemes.

You should check to see whether the apps and games you want to run are supported before deciding what to use.

Wine itself is a work-in-progress. The developers are trying to do something monumental--making Windows applications run on Linux. It's a hugely complex challenge that must be done a step at a time. Every new release of wine adds a bit more support, and a few more programs and functions start working. I'd say right now that maybe 75% of Windows programs can run, at least partially, under wine. Eventually they hope to have something that will run 90% or more, but it will probably take a few more years.