Re: [Fed-Talk] Apple - Boot Camp - Windows XP on a Mac
Re: [Fed-Talk] Apple - Boot Camp - Windows XP on a Mac
- Subject: Re: [Fed-Talk] Apple - Boot Camp - Windows XP on a Mac
- From: Brian Raymond <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 05 Apr 2006 15:11:17 -0400
- Thread-topic: [Fed-Talk] Apple - Boot Camp - Windows XP on a Mac
I have used Darwine (WINE on OSX PPC, x86) to run some apps on OSX and it
does work, however it does usually require a bit of work to get things
going.
http://wiki.osx86project.org/wiki/index.php/Darwine
- Brian
On 4/5/06 12:21 PM, "Woodhouse, Gregory J." <email@hidden>
wrote:
> Hmm...I'll have to look into that. I've been a bit wary of Wine as a
> result of stories I've heard about problems with certain applications
> making use of OLE/ActiveX. That's the real catch: many seemingly
> innocuous applications rely on OLE to implement the GUI.
>
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> Gregory Woodhouse <email@hidden>
> Health Systems Design & Development
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> "The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it
> is at all comprehensible." --Albert Einstein (1879-1955)
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: George Polich [mailto:email@hidden]
> Sent: Wednesday, April 05, 2006 9:15 AM
> To: Woodhouse, Gregory J.; email@hidden
> Subject: Re: [Fed-Talk] Apple - Boot Camp - Windows XP on a Mac
>
> If the application really has "nothing to do with Windows", then
> something like WINE might be a better solution than a virtual machine.
> WINE doesn't need the whole OS. And, I think I saw that the open source
> community is now working on a WINE port for Apple, since the Apple OS is
> now running on an Intel processor. (In true recursive GNU fashion, WINE
> stands for "W_ine I_s N_ot an E_mulator".) ~~ George Polich Army Public
> Affairs
>
> On 5/04/2006 12:02, "Woodhouse, Gregory J."
> <email@hidden>
> wrote:
>
>> I agree. Virtual Machines are a much better solution than
> multi-booting.
>> But what frustrates me is that I only have one or two Windows apps
>> that I have any interest in even running. It seems like overkill to
>> install a whole second OS just to run an application (which,
>> ultimately, has nothing to do with Windows!)
>>
>>
>> ===
>> Gregory Woodhouse <email@hidden> Health Systems
>> Design & Development
>> +1 510 768 6862
>> "The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is at all
>> comprehensible." --Albert Einstein (1879-1955)
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