Ron Blizzard 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? > Security...no...performance...is that with regards to the rest of the os or the program or in comparison with having Windows in a sandbox like Virtualbox? > 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.) > No comment there but if you run/install anything above wine 1.0 it should be that best deal you can get for running Windows programs under Linux. > Thanks for any recommendations. I like VirtualBox, but it seems like overkill. > > If the program runs under Wine, then yeah...overkill.