-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 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? If wine isn't running at all, when you start a Windows app, there is a bit of system resource overhead for starting the wine services, mainly some RAM usage. That should be expected however, as you can't magically run Windowss softwarre without the code existing to do so. ;o) Whether or not a given app runs with performance or security issues is going to vary widely from app to app, and one version of wine to another, along with many other factors. Wine is a moving target. > 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.) My builds of wine are made by taking the Fedora wine package, making some minor fixes to the file manifests and reconfiguring the build to build clean on EL5. When I'm actively using wine on a regular basis from time to time, I update my builds to track the wine project's latest release, however I haven't been testing new versions for a few months as I've been busy with other stuff. I should probably update it again soon though. I'll do a test build of the latest upstream tonight and if I get it rolling, I'll update my repo. Hope this helps. - -- Mike A. Harris http://mharris.ca | https://twitter.com/mikeaharris -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFKnbRg4RNf2rTIeUARAuayAKCE5WNIl5kMbII4yOlYd0rGm4v3OgCfaCi3 L8rr1WZ5PyYpGiuUM0lnS9A= =jMTt -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----