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Friday, October 20, 2006

I love Wine

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Before you jump to any conclusion, let me clarify things a bit. The wine i am talking about is the wine program (Wine is not emulator) and it does leaves a good taste in your mouth. I was reading up on running wine on linux and i thought maybe it is a good idea afterall. While the installation was a no-brainer (I am on ubuntu and synaptic rocks!) and to install some app you need to find the setup file and open it with wine program.


In ubuntu, a new context menu item is added and i can right click on a "set.exe" file and select "run with wine". Anyways i could see it was emulating "c:\\program files\" and maybe there is some hidden registry file too. Well all in all it was intelligent enough to place a link to that app on my desktop. The first app i installed was 'gtalk' but it didnt work out that good. It was missing the buttons and i could only see the text boxes. Maybe i would look into them when i get more time. Then i tried Ultraedit editor and it did install good. Heres a screenshot to that!


Ok so it did go smooth, now i am on my way to install winamp and some other apps i liked on Windoze. Now you would be tempted to ask why did i install ultraedit instead of using linux editors like kate or bluefish. The thing is i like kate but it is not as refined as ultraedit. And even if this sounds lame i like it so you who cares if its a windoze app.

Cheers

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