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Date:      Tue, 25 Mar 2008 14:12:18 +1100
From:      Norberto Meijome <freebsd@meijome.net>
To:        User Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: Replacing Windows with FreeBSD (was: my brother is making me  learn FreeBSD...)
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On Mon, 24 Mar 2008 08:33:30 -0400
Robert Huff <roberthuff@rcn.com> wrote:

> 	Respectfully, the list of things WINE will not - by its own
> documentation - run and has no expectation of running in the
> foreseeable future is immense.  Seasonal example for Americans:
> TurboTax. 

sure. and neither does our Australian Tax office software. which I run on a win32 box or a win32 VM under qemu. 

but wine has come a huge way from when I started to track it, back in '98 or so.

anyway, choice is the key word here , i think :)

cheers,
B
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