Wine for Windows Vista?

[chronk]

Hi,

I am looking for IE6 to run on Vista - In the URL below, it states that
there is a Wine for Windows now - and IE 6 can be installed once you have Wine for Windows.
Is this correct info?

http://tredosoft.com/IE6_For_Vista_Part_1

I have recently installed Debian on a old Pentium 3 machine, so I may check out Wine on that platform as well.
If the hardware can take it.
I have I believe 384MB RAM.
Don't have the monitor hooked up - so cannot say for sure at the moment.

Thanks,

Chronk

[austin987]

On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 9:43 PM, chronk <[email protected]> wrote:

Hi,

I am looking for IE6 to run on Vista - In the URL below, it states that
there is a Wine for Windows now - and IE 6 can be installed once you have Wine for Windows.
Is this correct info?

http://tredosoft.com/IE6_For_Vista_Part_1

You didn't read it very carefully, did you?

"Completely isolate Internet Explorer 6 from the Windows Kernel either
through virtualization technology (e.g. VirtualPC, VMWare, or QEMU) or
through Windows kernel emulation that actually works(!)(e.g. running
IE6 using a version of Wine compiled under Cygwin or Interix)."

Wine doesn't currently compile under Cygwin.

That said, you may have luck compiling the dlls under Mingw and using
those, but not sure if it'll work or not. Not really what Wine is
meant to do.

http://wiki.winehq.org/CompilingDLLsUsingMingw

--
-Austin

[David Gerard]

2009/2/24 chronk <[email protected]>:

I am looking for IE6 to run on Vista - In the URL below, it states that
there is a Wine for Windows now - and IE 6 can be installed once you have Wine for Windows.
Is this correct info?

There is no Wine for Windows. There are some of us pottering about
with it in our spare time

http://wiki.winehq.org/WineOnWindows

Problems:

1. It doesn't compile.
2. Even if it did, it wouldn't be able to launch Windows programs in Wine as-is.

Mostly it's an exercise for the moment.

It is, however, a desirable thing, as newer versions of Windows
jettison compatibility with older versions of Windows.


- d.

[Josh Dukes]

On Tue, 24 Feb 2009 12:58:35 +0000
David Gerard <[email protected]> wrote:

2009/2/24 chronk <[email protected]>:
It is, however, a desirable thing, as newer versions of Windows
jettison compatibility with older versions of Windows.

Doesn't incompatibility between Windows versions just help Linux? One
of the main reasons people stay with Windows is application
incompatibility with Linux. But if an application suddenly works under
Linux (through wine) and dropped on Windows, then that's just another
reason to switch.

Making a Windows wine just seems to be doing M$ job for them... and I
think they're trying pretty hard to make *your* job harder, so why make
their job easier?

(don't mean to troll, jw)

--

Josh Dukes
MicroVu IT Department

[austin987]

To list as well:

On Tue, Feb 24, 2009 at 2:17 PM, Josh Dukes <[email protected]> wrote:

On Tue, 24 Feb 2009 12:58:35 +0000
David Gerard <[email protected]> wrote:

2009/2/24 chronk <[email protected]>:
It is, however, a desirable thing, as newer versions of Windows
jettison compatibility with older versions of Windows.

Doesn't incompatibility between Windows versions just help Linux? One
of the main reasons people stay with Windows is application
incompatibility with Linux. But if an application suddenly works under
Linux (through wine) and dropped on Windows, then that's just another
reason to switch.

Wine isn't just for Linux you know. The goal of Wine is to implement
the Win32 API in an open way. If that helps Linux adoption, all the
better.

Making a Windows wine just seems to be doing M$ job for them... and I
think they're trying pretty hard to make *your* job harder, so why make
their job easier?

That's irrelevant IMHO. If someone wants to take the Wine source code
and do that, more power to them.

--
-Austin