[KLUG Members] run windows within linux

[Greg Mason]

> There is a special commercial version of Wine for running games
> (Wine-X?) as well as a commercial version of Wine for running M$-Office
> (Codeweavers).  I don't know how much better these version of Wine are
> as I haven't tried them - if they are charging more than $1.99 they had
> better be ALOT better.

WineX works almost flawlessly for games, and works best with NVidia 
video cards (ATI's work as well, but fullscreen modes don't work 
sometimes)

Crossover Office, from Codeweavers, is for running M$ Office, and other 
winblows office apps including Adobe photoshop, pagemaker, and the 
like. most apps run 99% like they would on windows, Microsoft will even 
support M$ Office on top of crossover office, provided your problem 
happens on windows as well. Also, applications running on top of 
Crossover Office run at full speed, as opposed to VMWare or any other 
emulator.

Last time I checked, Crossover Office was about 80 bucks, and WineX in 
source form can be obtained for free (but maybe not complete) or you 
can get a $5 a month membership that allows you to get precompiled 
binaries and support.

Sadly, WIneX is a fork in Wine because of license conflicts, so the 
only place you see their Transgaming's technology is in WineX (good for 
transgaming, bad for everybody else).

I've used WineX 2 and WineX 3, and both are great. I even got winzip to 
unzip a 300 meg zip file with WineX (although the screen fonts didn't 
look right with WineX).