Re: need help choosing appropriate BSD distro

I like your footnoting. It adds some humor to the post, and in others,
important information, too.

I'm not surprised that Wine is as it is. I'm surprised it works at all
in any non-Windows OS.

I might give in and give up on the Wine requirement for the laptop. I
mentioned in another post that I would only NEED it on the desktop. If
the desktop computer broke, I could boot to Windows on the laptop and
have my Agent email/newsgroup reader. Also my wife would not feel lost
if she needed to use my laptop if the desktop computer were broken.

To get away form Windows on the laptop, I might have to give up on
wanting to have Wine work on it, even in an OS it's made to support.
The hardware may just be too old. Someone else mentioned that it might
not have been compiled to support my older hardware. I installed it as
a binary, precompiled. I could compile it myself (haven't done much of
that) but Wine is strange, as you mention, and I don't know if it
would blow up things or work nicely after doing that.

On 24 Jun 2007 21:46:31 GMT, "Joachim Schipper"
<jdNoOtSPAMschipper@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

This will not work. The problem is that WINE uses some tricky threading
features[1] that are not supported on OpenBSD. Those same tricky
threading features are not supported in OpenBSD's Linux emulation
either.

An effort to get WINE to run on OpenBSD is currently being undertaken by
some OpenBSD users, but I have no idea whether or not that will result
in a working port, and how soon.

Joachim

[1] Ask your friendly neighbourhood expert what those are, I don't know.
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