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To: Dave who wrote (69)	8/7/2002 12:57:23 PM
From: dybdahl	Read Replies (1) of 19790

Yes - there are several issues. First, Wine is not an emulator, so it requires the operating system to behave like Windows when it comes to RAM allocation, CPU etc. OS X uses the wrong CPU type, but as you say, an Intel version is not unthinkable any more. I'm not sure about the BSD heritage though - if BSD allocates memory differently than Windows, they might have a problem to make it work. Crossover Office is basically a version of the Open Source Wine library that has been finetuned to run MS Office apps, Lotus Notes, Quicken etc. better than the version of Wine that is intended for general use. When trying to make WIndows apps run on Linux with wine, there are numerous examples that fixing a bug in wine in regards to one application breaks another application. By have a separate version of Wine especially for those Windows applications, increases Crossover Office stability a lot while at the same time, they don't interfer with other wine installation on the same Linux machine. They release the changes they make to the Open Source community - but the real challenge is to support corporations that want to use this. This requires deep knowledge of Wine and the involved applications. Dybdahl.

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