From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Dec 11 06:12:26 2007 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 63DB716A46E for ; Tue, 11 Dec 2007 06:12:26 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from simoncpu@simoncpu.com) Received: from rv-out-0910.google.com (rv-out-0910.google.com [209.85.198.189]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3B1D213C46B for ; Tue, 11 Dec 2007 06:12:26 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from simoncpu@simoncpu.com) Received: by rv-out-0910.google.com with SMTP id l15so2079922rvb for ; Mon, 10 Dec 2007 22:12:25 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.140.251.1 with SMTP id y1mr4774387rvh.1197351822320; Mon, 10 Dec 2007 21:43:42 -0800 (PST) Received: from ?10.3.1.101? ( [58.71.34.138]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id 3sm8691946rvi.2007.12.10.21.43.40 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Mon, 10 Dec 2007 21:43:42 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <475E238C.9010803@simoncpu.com> Date: Tue, 11 Dec 2007 13:43:40 +0800 From: "Simon Cornelius P. Umacob" User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.8 (X11/20061125) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Tom Wickline References: <53e3a9930712060959t6f446534xee6ba49d043dd70a@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <53e3a9930712060959t6f446534xee6ba49d043dd70a@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: "Simon Cornelius P. Umacob" Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Wine compatibility and performance on FreeBSD 7 X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 11 Dec 2007 06:12:26 -0000 Tom Wickline wrote: > Hello Everyone, > > I have a small blog about running Wine on Unix operating systems and > over the last couple days I've been > experimenting with Wine on FreeBSD 7 beta 2 (I see beta 4 is out, many thanks!) > > If anyone here is interested I ran Office 97 and 2000 out of the box > on FreeBSD 7beta no registry files > or special hacks needed. Ive also run a couple small applications > (Qicktime 7.1.6) (IE 5 5.5 6) and then some benchmarks > 3DMark 2000v1.1, 3DMark2001SE, GL Excess and PC Mark04. In the future > ill see if I can get 3DMark 2003 and 3DMark 2005 > to run and produce results as well. > > I don't know if any of you guys or gals are Gamers.... But just in > case I also installed Halo in Wine and it runs about the same > on FreeBSD as it does on Linux. With D3D, DDraw and OpenGL working > most every game that is running in Wine should run > on FreeBSD.. I don't know this as fact as I've only tried one Game and > four Benchmarks, but it does look promising. > Salamat sa review, Tom. Now, if only Wine could run on x86_64, that would be really cooooool.... =) [ simon.cpu ]