Date: Mon, 07 Aug 2006 21:52:03 -0700 From: Micah <micahjon@ywave.com> To: Gautham Ganapathy <gauthamg123@myrealbox.com> Cc: Joshua Lewis <joshua.lewis@familyfunzone.net>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Wine and FreeBSD how to Message-ID: <44D81873.6080907@ywave.com> In-Reply-To: <1154985546.78988.4.camel@localhost> References: <20060731062835.e72c8bd2fa3c8298c4bf39a8c4c61b77.c52d518029.wbe@email.secureserver.net> <1154985546.78988.4.camel@localhost>
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Gautham Ganapathy wrote: > On Mon, 2006-07-31 at 06:28 -0700, Joshua Lewis wrote: >> I installed wine on my 6.1 system but I don't see a config file >> anywhere on the system. Has anyone installed and used Wine >> successfully that could point me towards an easy FreeBSD how to? Or >> something similar. I told my 7 year old I would load a game for him >> and wanted to look for an easy how too. >> Sincerely, >> Joshua Lewis >> > > Run 'wine' once from the shell for it to generate the .wine directory > under $HOME. Then, try using 'winecfg' for configuration > > However, so far I have not been able to get anything more complex than > notepad running under wine on freebsd-6.1-release > > Regards > Gautham There's a nice technical discussion of WINE vs FreeBSD over on hackers@ (http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-hackers/2006-July/017323.html) that talks about why wine doesn't work. Supposedly if you set up wine to emulate Win2K it'll work better, but not perfectly (like WINE ever worked perfectly :) and there are patches in the pipeline that'll help with some other problems. HTH, Micah
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