I have a few simple questions

itbekri · Post by **itbekri** » Tue Feb 24, 2009 5:03 am

I am a website designer who is rather sick of vista and cannot find a copy of XP. I use linux for my personal computer and have been debating switching my business computer over to linux (Maybe Ubuntu?). My problem is I have several programs I require and need to know if they can be used through wine. I did a bit of research and found Wine Doors. It looks promising but can anyone tell me if it's as good as it looks or if they are just getting my hopes up?

Can anyone tell me if they got these to work?

Virtual CD Version 9.3.0.0
AOL Version 9.5 (Side note: Yes I hate it too)
Adobe Dreamweaver CS4 and Flash CS4

Thanks to anyone who is willing to help me out here

On an additional note, would a virtual machine be easier for this situation and if so what's a good one to use that is freeware?

haarp · Post by **haarp** » Tue Feb 24, 2009 6:16 am

VirtualCD: No. Better use real images with Cdemu.

Rest: http://appdb.winehq.org/

itbekri · Post by **itbekri** » Tue Feb 24, 2009 7:28 am

Virtual CD has never caused me any real problems... It does everything I need it to do and it's what I am familiar with. In other words, I'm lazy and don't want to grab a new program

Post by **dimesio** » Tue Feb 24, 2009 8:43 am

itbekri wrote: I did a bit of research and found Wine Doors. It looks promising but can anyone tell me if it's as good as it looks or if they are just getting my hopes up?

Wine Doors is a third party app and is not supported here. The only thing that is supported here is plain Wine.
http://wiki.winehq.org/ThirdPartyApplications

itbekri · Post by **itbekri** » Tue Feb 24, 2009 6:33 pm

I'm not asking for support, just if anyone has any experience with the add on. And does anyone know anything about those programs?

austin987 · Post by **austin987** » Tue Feb 24, 2009 6:44 pm

On Tue, Feb 24, 2009 at 5:33 PM, itbekri <[email protected]> wrote:

I'm not asking for support, just if anyone has any experience with the add on. And does anyone know anything about those programs?

Virtual CD Version 9.3.0.0

Hasn't been tested in years:
http://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.p ... n&iId=2854

AOL Version 9.1 (Side note: Yes I hate it too)

http://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.p ... ion&iId=80

(Do you really need this? For internet access or to check e-mail)
Side note: AOL still exists? HOLY HELL!

Adobe Dreamweaver CS4 and Flash CS4

Doesn't quite work yet. It's being worked on:
http://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.p ... &iId=14343

Apparently works decently with native overrides.

Thanks to anyone who is willing to help me out here

Np. In the future, use google/appdb before asking questions.

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-Austin