Doesn’t Wine help Linux? Posted April 26, 2004 at 12:00 am

Titus and I had a discussion about the nature of projects such as Wine and Crossover that seek to allow users to run Windows software in a Linux environment and whether or not these projects are a “good thing” for Linux. I see such products having an important role during migration for users who are unwilling to part with all of their Windows applications and games. At this point, most popular Windows applications do have a good Linux equivalent but games are still a big draw to the Windows platform and Linux’s only answer is WineX and a handful of big cross-platform titles. I guess I see these projects helping to fill a few gaps for the Linux desktop. As someone looking at Linux mostly from the other side, I can say I’m interested in this type of project and I would like to see them at a more mature stage of development.

On a more mundane note, I knocked out two more exams today. That leaves two more.