[CentOS] A couple questions about Wine
Lanny Marcus
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On Sun, Aug 30, 2009 at 2:58 PM, Ron Blizzard<rb4centos at gmail.com> wrote: > VirtualBox works great but, since I only really use one Windows > program (an older, specialized word processor called Movie Magic > Screenwriter), I'm thinking of using Wine to run it in CentOS and > getting rid of the Windows virtual machine. But a couple questions: > > 1) If I run Wine, do I introduce security or performance issues? > > 2) Is there any difference between Michael Harris' Wine repository and > the ones available through... wherever yum is picking it up? (Actually > it looks like it has two or three versions listed.) > > Thanks for any recommendations. I like VirtualBox, but it seems like overkill. FWIW, Google's Picasa for Linux runs on a Google customized version of WINE. I haven' seen any issues with Picasa on CentOS 5.3 (32 bit). YMMV
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