CodeWeavers "throwing down the gauntlet"

[Justin Dugger]

Honestly, the only thing I care about is DirectX games that will never
run on linux.  Word can rot in hell, it's already a convoluted piece
of popular software run amok.  I didn't switch to linux to run all my
windows apps on it!

Justin Dugger

On 7/20/05, Richard A. Franklin <raldenfranklin at everestkc.net> wrote:
> "We are on a mission to improve Wine until it can run nearly every
> Windows program, and we would like your help".
> 
> http://www.codeweavers.com/
> 
> As a desktop / home office user, I have been quiet on this list for some
> time. That is sort of a good news bad news thing from my perspective, as
> it means that my desktop experience with Linux is now  "adequate" with
> my favorite distro, however, I am not diving into diminishing returns
> (time and effort) in any attempt to make it all just a little bit more
> functional, and I had not seen any great leaps lately in desktop Linux
> in general. By "lately" I mean in Linux time, which involves rapid
> changes and frequent updates, not Windows time, which means an
> occasional download to get a new band aid to place over the last band aid.
> 
> No major questions. It all seems rather user friendly now (I need that),
> certainly when compared to that boxed distro I bought a few years ago
> that claimed to be a complete OS replacement. Oh, and I consider that to
> have been a lie at that time, although these days it is fashionable to
> refer to such wild claims as a gentle spin.
> 
> ANYWAY, the CodeWeavers installer challenge looks promising. If it
> resulted in just a couple of Windows programs working for me without
> Windows (including a couple of games written after 1997), then I would
> be done with Windows!
> 
> Rick
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