Messages in this thread |  | | From | "Peter T. Breuer" <> | Subject | Re: If Linux is to succeed | Date | Fri, 24 Jan 1997 13:03:35 +0000 (WET) |
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"A month of sundays ago Marko Sepp wrote:" > > >Linux needs applications to succeed in business. No question > >about it. Not the pathetic Applix or buggy WordPerfect. Why is > >it that the Windows API has not been ported to Unix? Why not the > >Microsoft Foundation classes? Why not ActiveX/OLE/DCOM.
Well - I for one cannot stand the windows 3.1/95 interface and would throw out the window any operating system that attempted to force me to use it! I like X (with your flavour of wm). That aside ...
> There's WINE in development stage currently, which is suposed to run Windows 3.1 > and at some point Win95 apps. Some 90% of API calls get translated currently.
Unfortunately, 90% of windows applications use some of the 10% of calls that are not covered. What is the problem with these? Wine has been at the slightly better than useless stage for a long while because of this and hasn't moved.
> > Marko >
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