IP: more on : Office on Linux -- with no emulator

[Dave Farber <dave@farber.net>]

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From: Joe Touch <touch@ISI.EDU>
Date: Mon, 01 Apr 2002 08:49:04 -0800
To: farber@cis.upenn.edu
Subject: Re: IP: : Office on Linux -- with no emulator

Hi, Dave,

Crossover uses Wine.

Acronyms to the contrary, WINE *IS* an emulator, at least for
non-recompiled apps (e.g., Office). See below, from their documentation
(see **, added for emphasis).

It may not run the app inside Win2K, but it *IS* running in an emulator.
Presumably to catch the calls to the API without relinking :-))

Joe

1.1.2. Emulation versus Native Linking

Wine is a UNIX implementation of the win32 libraries, written from
scratch by hundreds of volunteer developers and released under an open
source license. Anyone can download and read through the source code,
and fix bugs that arise. The Wine community is full of richly talented
programmers who have spent thousands of hours of personal time on
improving Wine so that it works well with the win32 Applications
Programming Interface (API), and keeps pace with new developments from
Microsoft.

Wine can run applications in two discrete ways: as pre-compiled Windows
binaries, or as natively compiled X11 (X Window System) applications.
The former method uses **emulation** to connect a Windows application to
the Wine libraries. You can run your Windows application directly with
the **emulator**, by installing through Wine or by simply copying the
Windows executables onto your Linux system.

The other way to run Windows applications with Wine requires that you
have the source code for the application. Instead of compiling it with
native Windows compilers, you can compile it with a native Linux
compiler -- gcc for example -- and link in the Wine Libraries as you
would with any other native UNIX application. These natively linked
applications are referred to as Winelib applications.

The Wine Users Guide will focus on running precompiled Windows
applications using the Wine **emulator**. The Winelib Users Guide will
cover Winelib applications.


Dave Farber wrote:
> 
> ------ Forwarded Message
> *From: *"David G. Cassidy" <david@turnerconsulting.com>
> *Date: *Fri, 29 Mar 2002 17:42:06 -0500
> *To: *dave@farber.net
> *Subject: *IP: Office on Linux -- with no emulator
> 
> Dave,
> 
> For IP. Codeweavers are at http://www.codeweavers.com
> <http://www.codeweavers.com/> . I can't imagine that MS will sit idle
> while their core product is circumnavigated like this.  Be interested in
> other IP-er's comments!
> 
> Cheers,
> Dave
> 
>     CODEWEAVERS RUNS OFFICE WITHOUT WINDOWS
> 
>     Posted March 29, 2002 10:23 Pacific Time
> 
>     HOPING TO BREAK down one the biggest barriers to
>     acceptance of Linux on the desktop, Codeweavers
>     unveiled software that allows corporate users to run
>     Microsoft Office and Lotus Notes without a Windows
>     operating system.
> 
>     The product, called CrossOver Office, eliminates the
>     need for a Windows operating systems license as well
>     as a Windows emulator which, traditionally, have
>     tended to weigh down the speed and performance of
>     desktop applications.
> 
>     For the full story:
>     
http://www.infoworld.com/articles/hn/xml/02/03/29/020329hncodeweavers.xml?0329fr
pm
> 
> --
> *David G. Cassidy
> _Turner Consulting Group
> _*Tel: (703) 817-1474
> Cell: (202) 246-5689
> david@turnerconsulting.com
> http://www.turnerconsulting.com/
> 
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