Friday, July 18, 2008

Re: [BLUG] More tasty Wine goodness

Thanks for the tip - I'm looking forward to trying it out.  As I am a musician, I may have to check out Fruity Loops too. . . .
Matt

On Fri, Jul 18, 2008 at 10:24 AM, Mark Krenz <mark@slugbug.org> wrote:

 Now I can see why the Wine team released 1.0.  It runs so much its hard
to believe. It seems magical to run all this Windows software in Linux.
8 years ago I thought that it was somewhat crazy to try to implement a
windows subsystem for Linux, but now its easy to see that the time was
well worth it.  Nearly any program that I've tried to run in Wine works
pretty well. Many things run completely.  Its amazing.  I'm running Wine
1.1.1 on Ubuntu.  I've had to copy a few DLLs over from Windows, but
only about 10 of them.  Some programs work best if you enclose them
inside Wine's virtual desktop emulator.  This is helpful for Games to if
you don't want them to be full screen.

 Right now I'm running the demo version of this music production
software called Fruity Loops (version 8) in it.  It runs really well
too.  Fruity loops is the program that I used 8 years ago to write I
Can't Print (http://suso.suso.org/aural/icantprint.mp3)

 http://www.bloomingtonlinux.org/wiki/Image:Fruityloops3.jpg

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Mark Krenz
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