Wine has come a long way. I use the latest development release for my day to day work drawing pcbs and writing embedded HC908 assembly code. Most of the bugs seem to be in the applications themselves rather than Wine.
What's the general opinion then of the overall stability of Wine running a well written application compared to the same on win98 or XP, especially seeing development on those has stopped whereas Wine keeps chugging forward.
Wine stability vs Win98, XP
Re: Wine stability vs Win98, XP
Circlotron stability of wine depends on a huge number of factors. Not all those in the wine project control.
Win9x OS design was not that stable at the core to start off with. Its not very hard to beat 9x stability.
Well written is very subjective. Programs can have trouble under Wine because a function is either not written or is just a stub or is simply buggy. So well written applications can fail under wine. Well written applications can fail under win 9x because it is buggy.
Applications that are Wine compatible(use only functions wine has implemented) stability of wine will match or exceed that of XP.
The program you are using when running from console is it displaying and FIXME messages. Yes that normally means program is using functions wine has only roughly implemented or stubed. It is shocking how many functions can be bogus and applications still run perfectly like there is nothing wrong.
Basically you have just asked how long is a piece of string without define what piece of string you are talking about.
Win9x OS design was not that stable at the core to start off with. Its not very hard to beat 9x stability.
Well written is very subjective. Programs can have trouble under Wine because a function is either not written or is just a stub or is simply buggy. So well written applications can fail under wine. Well written applications can fail under win 9x because it is buggy.
Applications that are Wine compatible(use only functions wine has implemented) stability of wine will match or exceed that of XP.
The program you are using when running from console is it displaying and FIXME messages. Yes that normally means program is using functions wine has only roughly implemented or stubed. It is shocking how many functions can be bogus and applications still run perfectly like there is nothing wrong.
Basically you have just asked how long is a piece of string without define what piece of string you are talking about.
