Re: [aclug-L] xwindows? which is the best?

[phrostie <phrostie@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

i'm currently running afterstep also.
i have not gotten into the gnome/kde battle.
to me it's just fluff to bog down my machine.
there is a program that i am watching the develoment on which requires
gnome.
but until it's ready i see no reason to bother.

you asked about running win app's.
there are several packages, the most famous is Wine.
another is Twin.

if you goto the wine hq site they have a whole list of emulators and shells.

if you want to get away from windows give us a list of stuff that you use and
we can give you suggestions of linux app's to take their place.
i started looking into wine and twin at one point and decided it was better to just go
pure linux.

the only thing i would use them  for now would be the software to manage my bank account.
it's windows only :-(.

check SAL or freshmeat.
if they don't have it it does not exist.
 

Michael Holmes wrote:

I am currently running afterstep.  I am thinking of either gnome, or kde.
 Which is the best, which is closest to apple or windows?  Is there
anything available yet which will run windows applications.  IE. games
which have to run in win95?  I am currently dual boot (LINUX/win95)  I
would love to mail bill back his CD!!  But, I cannot get rid of windows
yet, as I do not know of LINUX applications to serve the same purpose.

Mike

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