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Re: Wine 7.0

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Post by heavyset_go »

The_Colonel wrote: post #17
acdha wrote: post #9

I'm hoping that I'm correctly interpreting the WoW64 portion of the notes as meaning that I could run a 32-bit x86 Windows binary using the 64-bit Wine on ARM. I don't have a common need for this but I've had a couple of cases where I needed to test compatibility with something ancient and it would have been great to be able to install something in my development environment. In one of the cases, it was a 64-bit exec…

Wine Is Not an Emulator, so I doubt it will be able to run x86 apps on ARM.

You can setup binfmt_misc to run x86 Windows binaries with Wine and Qemu on other architectures like ARM.

Re: Wine 7.0

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Post by ByThyGrace »

xd1936 wrote: post #47
HeckFeck wrote: post #3

I recently used Wine to run Office 97 on Debian, just for old time's sake. I ended up liking it so much that I now use it for my word processing and spreadsheet tasks. This classic version is feature complete to me. Wine ensures it lives on, long past its support date and on an alien operating system. And clippit says hello! Screenshot for the curious: https://imgur.com/a/GmVUAfC It shows Word 97 on Linux editing a l…

My IT department still uses a home-grown work ticketing system built in Access 97. The leadership in the department built it custom to their wants in the 90s and, just like you, it's feature-complete-ish. Pain in the butt for newer employees like me. Please don't tell them that it works in Wine. It needs to die.

But then all computers in your company can now move to Linux! Surely they'll love it when you pitch this news to them.

Re: Wine 7.0

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Post by heavyset_go »

jcims wrote: post #74

I just got into astrophotography and Wine has been a blessing to have. There are a lot of tools that are wintel only and being able to just run them without going through the hassle of building a vm has been fantastic.

Do the apps you run talk to hardware at all? I haven't run into a case where I've needed to run Windows apps to communicate with hardware, so I'm interested in whether that's something Wine has already tackled well.

Re: Wine 7.0

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Post by ByThyGrace »

HeckFeck wrote: post #3

I recently used Wine to run Office 97 on Debian, just for old time's sake. I ended up liking it so much that I now use it for my word processing and spreadsheet tasks. This classic version is feature complete to me. Wine ensures it lives on, long past its support date and on an alien operating system. And clippit says hello! Screenshot for the curious: https://imgur.com/a/GmVUAfC It shows Word 97 on Linux editing a l…

How do you even get a legit copy of Office 97 these days?

Re: Wine 7.0

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Post by tinus_hn »

akersten wrote: post #12

I'd like to take a moment to be grateful for the small graces of the current copyright climate that allow projects like this to exist. If the parameters of a few lines of US Code were slightly tweaked, or a few court rulings different, we'd simply not have this amazing feat of interoperability available. It's really an amazing thing that we're able to foster projects like this in the open, and we should be careful to…

Has this ever been tested? If Linux can decide license requirements for modules that implement their apis, I’m not so sure Microsoft couldn’t block Wine if they really wanted.

Re: Wine 7.0

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Post by jcims »

heavyset_go wrote: post #93
jcims wrote: post #74

I just got into astrophotography and Wine has been a blessing to have. There are a lot of tools that are wintel only and being able to just run them without going through the hassle of building a vm has been fantastic.

Do the apps you run talk to hardware at all? I haven't run into a case where I've needed to run Windows apps to communicate with hardware, so I'm interested in whether that's something Wine has already tackled well.

Yes, almost exclusively low speed serial comms (ASCOM to the mount) and it generally has been flawless.

The only lesson learned is that there is a wine config file that maps serial ports out of the box and I had to nuke that config to pick up my serial port (it was on /dev/ttyUSB0 vs/dev/ttySx)

Re: Wine 7.0

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Post by folmar »

loosescrews wrote: post #23
ogogmad wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What modern MS Office features are missing from '97 but still useful? I'm thinking you won't be able to write formulas using Latex. There's also a 32-bit limit for the amount of memory a program can use.

Crash recovery OpenOffice.org and LibreOffice always used to do this much better than Microsoft, but my understanding is that Microsoft has made more of an effort more recently. It is also useful if the program gets unexpectedly closed (for example by a reboot).

Office 97 has autosave, which works quite nice, I'd say better than current Office but worse then Open/LibreOffice.

Re: Wine 7.0

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Post by tasn »

tinus_hn wrote: post #95
akersten wrote: post #12

I'd like to take a moment to be grateful for the small graces of the current copyright climate that allow projects like this to exist. If the parameters of a few lines of US Code were slightly tweaked, or a few court rulings different, we'd simply not have this amazing feat of interoperability available. It's really an amazing thing that we're able to foster projects like this in the open, and we should be careful to…

Has this ever been tested? If Linux can decide license requirements for modules that implement their apis, I’m not so sure Microsoft couldn’t block Wine if they really wanted.

The license in Linux case is for distributing Linux (and the module). You can create modules with whatever license you'd like if you're not distributing your work. In Wine's case you're not distributing Windows so it's not the same.

A more similar case would be Oracle vs. Google over the Java API.

Re: Wine 7.0

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Post by stuaxo »

I'm curious to see some screenshots with the new theme.

It seems somebody does some work on themes about every year or two.

Re: Wine 7.0

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Post by lucas_membrane »

Isn't linux still falling farther behind? If I want to use my linux desktop to run some of the gazillion inexpensive apps written for the computerphones or any of the bazillion high-prestige apps written for the Apple desktops, what are my chances?
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