Re: WINE and Windows?

Posted: 06-23-2003, 01:36 PM
Ive succesfully used WineX without a windows partition..you may want to
try that.

Danny wrote:
> OK. I've read all these different posts on WINE and how to run your
> Windows programs. My main question to all this is - WHY do you have to
> have a Windows partition in order to run WINE? Kind of defeats the
> purpose of switching to Linux in the first place. I switched to get
> AWAY from Windows...not to have to install in on a partition that I
> could be using for my Linux system.
>
> SO is it necessary to have a partition with Windows and your programs
> on it? I run Red Hat 7.2 & 7.3 on about four systems here. I want
> nothing to do with Windows anymore. Nothing. I have various programs
> though that are Windows based that I'd like to keep using since there
> is nothing like them in the Linux community yet. How could I go about
> setting them up and using them under WINE?
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