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Re: [News] Open University Goes with Free Software

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____/ Chris Ahlstrom on Wednesday 18 Nov 2009 15:32 : \____

> Roy Schestowitz pulled this Usenet boner:
> 
>> ____/ High Plains Thumper on Wednesday 18 Nov 2009 12:08 : \____
>>
>>> Is it that the only solution for stability is purchase of Microsoft
>>> games as well?
>>
>> Don't these games run under the latest Wine? If not, the nice thing is
>> that they will as wine matures. Wine compatibility with Windows games and
>> applications is in some ways better than that of Vista and Vista 7. In the
>> future, whenever people wish to 'revive' memories of nostalgic games
>> they'll fire up wine, not Windows. It's like dosbox.
> 
> That might bring a few people over to Linux.

At least in a VM... launch VirtualBox with Fedora, run Wine, run old Windows app inside
wine.

Boy, I'm confused now... gotta get some coffee.

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