Comments on: Linux Conversion, Complete. http://www.joemanna.com/blog/linux-conversion-complete/ Tech News, Political Discussions, and Other Stuff From a Geek Sat, 17 May 2008 10:34:51 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: Joe http://www.joemanna.com/blog/linux-conversion-complete/#comment-31205 Joe Wed, 05 Dec 2007 00:00:22 +0000 http://www.joemanna.com/blog/linux-conversion-complete/#comment-31205 Rogan, Guilty as charged -- until I was corrected by another commenter, Daysleeper Ed, about the recursive WINE acronym. Maybe it's me, but I've only previously heard WINE mean "Windows Emulator." Indeed, it's a myth that WINE is an emulator. However, let's also understand that an "emulator" can have more than one meaning. WINEHQ states that Wine is typically known as, "Wine Is Not an Emulator," or more colloquially, "Windows Emulator." They provide an abstract explanation on emulation, too. I admit that I'm still fairly a novice to Linux (compared to true unix sysadmins), since I spend several hours daily working in Windows XP without much choice. However, Wine does help run the proprietary Windows applications I need while I learn deeper concepts in the Linux Environment. Thanks for your comments. Feel free to let me know your thoughts on my other entries here. :-) Sources: - http://www.winehq.org/site/myths - http://www.winehq.org/site/docs/winedev-guide/architecture - http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/emulator ~ Joe Rogan,

Guilty as charged — until I was corrected by another commenter, Daysleeper Ed, about the recursive WINE acronym. Maybe it’s me, but I’ve only previously heard WINE mean “Windows Emulator.” Indeed, it’s a myth that WINE is an emulator. However, let’s also understand that an “emulator” can have more than one meaning.

WINEHQ states that Wine is typically known as, “Wine Is Not an Emulator,” or more colloquially, “Windows Emulator.” They provide an abstract explanation on emulation, too.

I admit that I’m still fairly a novice to Linux (compared to true unix sysadmins), since I spend several hours daily working in Windows XP without much choice. However, Wine does help run the proprietary Windows applications I need while I learn deeper concepts in the Linux Environment.

Thanks for your comments. Feel free to let me know your thoughts on my other entries here. :-)

Sources:
- http://www.winehq.org/site/myths
- http://www.winehq.org/site/docs/winedev-guide/architecture
- http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/emulator

~ Joe

]]> By: Rogan http://www.joemanna.com/blog/linux-conversion-complete/#comment-31199 Rogan Tue, 04 Dec 2007 23:27:08 +0000 http://www.joemanna.com/blog/linux-conversion-complete/#comment-31199 WINdows Emulator? 10 years of experience with windows still = 0 experience with linux. WINdows Emulator? 10 years of experience with windows still = 0 experience with linux.

]]> By: Joe http://www.joemanna.com/blog/linux-conversion-complete/#comment-31073 Joe Tue, 04 Dec 2007 02:34:35 +0000 http://www.joemanna.com/blog/linux-conversion-complete/#comment-31073 Thanks for the helpful comments, Slack. The only thing that prevents me from exploring untraveled territory with other Linux OSs is I have fairly unique hardware in my machine, soft-RAID and an ATI graphics card. This makes driver conundrums very frustrating and I do my best to avert the "all-day driver installations." I don't play that many games on it, yet. So far CS:S runs pretty well, albeit some minor lag sometimes. I've heard of Cedega and I'd be interested in it probably later on. For Web development, I use Bluefish. However, I'll give Quanta+ a shot and see how I like it. Thanks for the good words. :-) ~Joe Thanks for the helpful comments, Slack.

The only thing that prevents me from exploring untraveled territory with other Linux OSs is I have fairly unique hardware in my machine, soft-RAID and an ATI graphics card. This makes driver conundrums very frustrating and I do my best to avert the “all-day driver installations.”

I don’t play that many games on it, yet. So far CS:S runs pretty well, albeit some minor lag sometimes. I’ve heard of Cedega and I’d be interested in it probably later on.

For Web development, I use Bluefish. However, I’ll give Quanta+ a shot and see how I like it.

Thanks for the good words. :-)
~Joe

]]> By: Slack http://www.joemanna.com/blog/linux-conversion-complete/#comment-31070 Slack Tue, 04 Dec 2007 02:21:40 +0000 http://www.joemanna.com/blog/linux-conversion-complete/#comment-31070 Ahh shit! And don't forget Quanta+ for Web Dev! SO freakin cool! Ahh shit! And don’t forget Quanta+ for Web Dev! SO freakin cool!

]]> By: Slack http://www.joemanna.com/blog/linux-conversion-complete/#comment-31069 Slack Tue, 04 Dec 2007 02:20:07 +0000 http://www.joemanna.com/blog/linux-conversion-complete/#comment-31069 Congrats on the move, Joe! Welcome to real computing. ;) If you are pretty new or novice to Linux, I'd recommend checking out Gentoo. You will learn SO freakin much about the guts of Linux by installing and building a Gentoo distro. And if you are half as OCD as I am, the more you learn about it the more you will redo your Gentoo install to get things JUST RIGHT. :) These days I find myself on Kubuntu and am loving every minute of it. OH! And, speaking of Wine, give Cedega a look see. It's a fork of Wine that is specially tweaked for gaming. ;) PS: Your buddy is right about the backronym, and for fuck sake NEVER call Wine an Emulator. Major no no. Congrats on the move, Joe! Welcome to real computing. ;) If you are pretty new or novice to Linux, I’d recommend checking out Gentoo. You will learn SO freakin much about the guts of Linux by installing and building a Gentoo distro. And if you are half as OCD as I am, the more you learn about it the more you will redo your Gentoo install to get things JUST RIGHT. :) These days I find myself on Kubuntu and am loving every minute of it. OH! And, speaking of Wine, give Cedega a look see. It’s a fork of Wine that is specially tweaked for gaming. ;)

PS: Your buddy is right about the backronym, and for fuck sake NEVER call Wine an Emulator. Major no no.

]]> By: Joe http://www.joemanna.com/blog/linux-conversion-complete/#comment-30540 Joe Wed, 28 Nov 2007 13:16:31 +0000 http://www.joemanna.com/blog/linux-conversion-complete/#comment-30540 Ed, Thanks for the comment. I always thought that the WINE acronym as you described was a joke. I guess I'll make the edit. You are right that tinkering with the MSI Installer can be a pain, but once you install DCOM98 and a few other packages (as described in many online tutorials), then it's easy. "wine .wine/drive_c/windows/system32/msiexec.exe" is where the replacement MSI installer is. ~ Joe Ed,

Thanks for the comment. I always thought that the WINE acronym as you described was a joke. I guess I’ll make the edit.

You are right that tinkering with the MSI Installer can be a pain, but once you install DCOM98 and a few other packages (as described in many online tutorials), then it’s easy.

“wine .wine/drive_c/windows/system32/msiexec.exe” is where the replacement MSI installer is.

~ Joe

]]> By: Daysleeper Ed http://www.joemanna.com/blog/linux-conversion-complete/#comment-27974 Daysleeper Ed Tue, 13 Nov 2007 21:25:42 +0000 http://www.joemanna.com/blog/linux-conversion-complete/#comment-27974 Hey, nice to see you're using Ubuntu. You might want to try installing IEs4Linux to get AOL working. I also read you need to configure the .msi replacement in Wine to get things working. The guides in Frank's Corner (frankscorner.org) is a good place to start. And WINE is a backcronym for Wine Is Not an Emulator -- no flame intended. Hey, nice to see you’re using Ubuntu. You might want to try installing IEs4Linux to get AOL working. I also read you need to configure the .msi replacement in Wine to get things working. The guides in Frank’s Corner (frankscorner.org) is a good place to start. And WINE is a backcronym for Wine Is Not an Emulator — no flame intended.

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