Hi I have a suggestion! To Imporve the perfect Freebsd!

Chris racerx at makeworld.com
Sun Mar 28 11:25:30 PST 2004


On Sunday 28 March 2004 01:18 pm, Jorn Argelo wrote:
> The idea is alright, but Wine is far from perfection. In fact, many large
> programs and 3D applications won't even run with wine. Why? First because
> it's still in Alpa fase. Secocond,  they depend on DirectX, and Wine only
> emulates the API part of Windows. You could use WineX, but that is an
> commercial program, so it cannot be shipped with FreeBSD. Third, Microsoft
> constantly changes the API code, and sometimes they don't publish
> documentation regarding the code.
>
> Besides, who needs Windows programs anyway? You have everything you want
> for free, except for games.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Jorn.
>

... and games ought to be played on a games console (PS/2, X-Box, etc.)

-- 
Best regards,
Chris


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