Portable Apps on Wine within Linux
Posted: Sun Sep 30, 2007 2:24 am
Good morning.
After long time I come back with this subject. But I have changed the method. Until now I was making trials on Slax Killbill Edition http://www.slax.org/ . Now I am making trials on an installed Linux "Ubuntu Studio" http://ubuntustudio.org/ , a distribution for multimedia edition.
I have installed Wine 0.9.45 in Ubuntu Studio, I have tested the major part of my core PORTABLE apps and the result is sumarized in the links page of my web site:
http://www.telefonica.net/web2/ttk/lnk.htm
All the apps that did run on Wine in Slax now are running in Ubuntu Studio, and all the apps that did not run on Wine in Slax now are not running in Ubuntu Studio. So We must conclude that the behaviour of the different apps does not depends on the distribution, therefore I am confident that my conclussions are good for any distribution.
I have tested around 90 Windows portable apps, and about the half of them run on Wine (some of them with, but the majority without comments).
In my case this is changing my working scenario: Since I want portability at any time, and within all the OS that I need (Windows and Linux), I will keep only using, whilst I can, apps that are portable ALSO in Linux on a Wine device (Windows Emulator), and I will be using the apps that not run on Wine, seldom, being gathered in another different folder to avoid confussion with the ones that run.
I know that some of the apps that today did not run on Wine need a little tunning; may be in near future I will give them some chance. If I succeed in my trials I will post the results.
Generally the apps that did not run on Wine were highly dependant on DLLs or other Windows libraries, or are too much related to the file tree or have a big size, and Wine cannot manage the needed memory, or depend on the design of their GUI ('too much drag and drop'). This knowledge could be usefull to the developers of portable apps, to avoid such circumstances.
OK. I will come back later.
Regards.
*JT.
After long time I come back with this subject. But I have changed the method. Until now I was making trials on Slax Killbill Edition http://www.slax.org/ . Now I am making trials on an installed Linux "Ubuntu Studio" http://ubuntustudio.org/ , a distribution for multimedia edition.
I have installed Wine 0.9.45 in Ubuntu Studio, I have tested the major part of my core PORTABLE apps and the result is sumarized in the links page of my web site:
http://www.telefonica.net/web2/ttk/lnk.htm
All the apps that did run on Wine in Slax now are running in Ubuntu Studio, and all the apps that did not run on Wine in Slax now are not running in Ubuntu Studio. So We must conclude that the behaviour of the different apps does not depends on the distribution, therefore I am confident that my conclussions are good for any distribution.
I have tested around 90 Windows portable apps, and about the half of them run on Wine (some of them with, but the majority without comments).
In my case this is changing my working scenario: Since I want portability at any time, and within all the OS that I need (Windows and Linux), I will keep only using, whilst I can, apps that are portable ALSO in Linux on a Wine device (Windows Emulator), and I will be using the apps that not run on Wine, seldom, being gathered in another different folder to avoid confussion with the ones that run.
I know that some of the apps that today did not run on Wine need a little tunning; may be in near future I will give them some chance. If I succeed in my trials I will post the results.
Generally the apps that did not run on Wine were highly dependant on DLLs or other Windows libraries, or are too much related to the file tree or have a big size, and Wine cannot manage the needed memory, or depend on the design of their GUI ('too much drag and drop'). This knowledge could be usefull to the developers of portable apps, to avoid such circumstances.
OK. I will come back later.
Regards.
*JT.