From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jan 27 19:45:14 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 868AE1065672 for ; Thu, 27 Jan 2011 19:45:14 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from pldrouin@gmail.com) Received: from mail-gy0-f182.google.com (mail-gy0-f182.google.com [209.85.160.182]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 420168FC1A for ; Thu, 27 Jan 2011 19:45:13 +0000 (UTC) Received: by gyf3 with SMTP id 3so817688gyf.13 for ; Thu, 27 Jan 2011 11:45:13 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date :message-id:subject:from:to:cc:content-type; bh=hnpumWK3kkl+4e34YzdvcqSu4ne9rySVnjINarkUDdM=; b=t9VDwKcM4Fvy3Df2W/xoU2eb4aGPRRZRx1jGlsuEEAXqKrNBKLysR/34x16w27qV8y HJae3l+Usbh2QObLiQDHofLeZqT5sJVWd98KCSylybr3yOdNdOfmT7QNIySkkZOpJTQO xd8RDzANabtgTVOhNuCCv2qwOEXIo+zcIz2wk= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type; b=EYBGFMvUEqXkAceow6pYGB7+DYw66AjeLZHGunhvcEZAuyGorV8AFxWE5arp5beFkF p1LbNCpj0n2T5JQgYigYGEVv9RopkaHsgWFczL9EXoNeNkLNof7tYE/btEyLkgVDB7l8 B35esIPZ7LW/Z95qLlN2S/IOpzTNjbNntx2yU= MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.103.239.15 with SMTP id q15mr880015mur.15.1296155863010; Thu, 27 Jan 2011 11:17:43 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.204.151.74 with HTTP; Thu, 27 Jan 2011 11:17:42 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <4D41C298.7030709@gmail.com> References: <4D41BDF6.5080904@blakemfg.com> <4D41C298.7030709@gmail.com> Date: Thu, 27 Jan 2011 14:17:42 -0500 Message-ID: From: Pierre-Luc Drouin To: Jarrod Slick Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: wine questions X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 27 Jan 2011 19:45:14 -0000 "Linux emulation" on FreeBSD is not really emulation, in the sense that it does not create virtual hardware. Some linux softwares run even faster on FreeBSD than Linux... My worry would be more to make sure that USB communication works through the "emulation" layers... On Thu, Jan 27, 2011 at 2:08 PM, Jarrod Slick wrote: > On 1/27/11 11:48 AM, Fred wrote: > >> Hello, >> >> I need to buy an expensive logic device programmer that connects to a PC >> through USB. Unfortunately, the user software that make it go only runs on >> Bill Gates' cancerous, virus-infested, scourge of the Earth excuse for an OS >> which I do not use. Is it likely to work ok using wine? What type of >> programs do not work well with wine? There is a supported, commercial >> version of wine that runs on Linux. Would I be better off buying that and >> running it on the FBSD Linux emulation? >> >> Best regards, >> Fred >> >> _______________________________________________ >> freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list >> http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions >> To unsubscribe, send any mail to " >> freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >> > Chaining emulators just sounds like a bad idea; I would guess that your > risk of complications increases exponentially when doing this, and I would > bet anything that your performance decreases exponentially as well. Also, I > doubt the company that sells the commercial version of wine would support > their software when running on untested platforms (e.g., FBSD w/ Linux > Emulation). Further, that company probably has a list of supported software > and won't vouch for their product's ability to run anything outside of that > list. > > If you absolutely must run it under a *nix, I would go with Linux for this > project. > > If you'd set dogma aside, though, you would probably see that Windows is > your best bet for this project. A close second (if you had all the time in > the world) would be writing drivers yourself for your desired platform. > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to " > freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >