RE: support for a small US college going GNU?

If you can get the programs you care about to run under wine, that is=0D=0A=
clearly a superior approach than using Citrix on many levels. The=0D=0Adown=
side is increased technical support and IT costs to get there.=0D=0A=0D=0AN=
onetheless, I think that you could currently get more to run with=0D=0ACitr=
ix than with Wine. Depending upon the technical expertise of your=0D=0Auser=
s, Citrix is probably easier for them to use at this point.=0D=0A=0D=0A-Kel=
ly=20=0D=0A=0D=0A-----Original Message-----=0D=0AFrom: Jeremy White [mailto=
:[email protected]]=20=0D=0ASent: Monday, July 18, 2005 3:37 PM=0D=0AT=
o: Anderson, Kelly=0D=0ACc: [email protected]=0D=0ASubject: Re: support for a =
small US college going GNU=3F=0D=0A=0D=0AIn my rather biased opinion, anoth=
er key tool is Wine (www.winehq.org).=0D=0AWine lets you run Windows progra=
ms, unmodified, and they run as though=0D=0Athey were native Linux applicat=
ions.  The challenge with Wine has always=0D=0Abeen that it's a very ambiti=
ous project, and there are often warts or=0D=0Aproblems in running any give=
n application (if you can get it running at=0D=0Aall).=0D=0A=0D=0AHowever, =
a certain friendly Free Software company has been working its=0D=0Aheart ou=
t to gradually improve Wine, so that it is increasingly robust.=0D=0AFurthe=
r, we're finding that increasingly, even if we have to do work on=0D=0Aa se=
rvice basis to improve Wine to run an application, Wine can still be=0D=0Am=
ore cost effective than Citrix.=0D=0A=0D=0ACheers,=0D=0A=0D=0AJeremy=0D=0A=0D=
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