On Fri, Oct 3, 2008 at 2:21 PM, Ken Teh <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Are they any problems running the wine emulator on SL5x?  I recall wine
> used to be part of RedHat's distributions.  But, I dont see it in SL5x. Is
> or was there a reason why it was left out? It appears to be part of the
> EPEL repo which I am not familiar with.
>

Wine was mostly in powertools and is not a program that is 'cheap' to
support. That would be my guess why Red Hat Enterprise does not have
it. EPEL is a repository where software from Fedora is compiled for
EL-4/EL-5. It is not supported by RH beyond it scratches various
peoples' itches.

> One of my users wants it on a server.  I'm reluctant to install it if it
> will hang up the server.  I've never used it myself.  I've played around
> with VMWare and while it works, there were the occasional hiccups. Which
> is ok if it's your own machine.  Not so good on a multi-user server.
>

I would not consider Wine to be server oriented software. Its more of
running desktop applications and needs a lot of hand-holding for that.
If its 'critical' for them, I would see if they can pay for the
professional wine so you have someone to send support questions to.

> I'd appreciate any advice.  Thanks!
>



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