nemo Posted April 15, 2005 Report Share Posted April 15, 2005 fair enough. thanks for the warning. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alexander Posted April 16, 2005 Report Share Posted April 16, 2005 Wine (Windows emulation for those unaware)Wine is not a windows emulator, it stands for Wine Is Not an Emulator and is not an emulator, it in fact, is a library that translates windows and directX calls into linux and opengl ones. (for more info: http://www.winehq.com/site/docs/wine-faq/index#DIFFERENCE-BETWEEN-WINE-AND-EMULATORS) To my knowledge there isn't a good financial application available for Linux yet. there's aqmoney(online banking), kmymoney2(personal finance manager) and kbudget(budget tool (both budget and money management)), probably other smaller projects too... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
C1ay Posted April 16, 2005 Report Share Posted April 16, 2005 Wine is not a windows emulator, it stands for Wine Is Not an Emulator and is not an emulator, it in fact, is a library that translates windows and directX calls into linux and opengl ones. (for more info: http://www.winehq.com/site/docs/wine-faq/index#DIFFERENCE-BETWEEN-WINE-AND-EMULATORS) there's aqmoney(online banking), kmymoney2(personal finance manager) and kbudget(budget tool (both budget and money management)), probably other smaller projects too...Yes, you are correct, technically it is not an emulator, but the average Joe wouldn't understand the difference anyhow. I tried connecting to my bank with kbudget and it refused the connection :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alexander Posted April 16, 2005 Report Share Posted April 16, 2005 yeah, i know that to an average joe wouldnt know the difference, but it is not an emulator, i just know that wine developers get really upset because so many people call it an emulator, i thought i'd clear it up :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tormod Posted April 18, 2005 Author Report Share Posted April 18, 2005 So I assume there is no need for a separate Linux/Open Source forums then. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alexander Posted April 18, 2005 Report Share Posted April 18, 2005 I guess that since there is not that many people who use linux on these forums, there isnt one tormod, as much as I'd like there to be one... but for now the CS section can probably handle Linux and Open Source questions. I still hope to eventually fork a Linux/Open Source forums, but its not until we get at least 2 to 3 times as many people using GNU everything that we sould probably consider it (and that will take a while :)) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tormod Posted April 18, 2005 Author Report Share Posted April 18, 2005 Of course, with a Linux forum we might even attract more Linux users, too... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alexander Posted April 19, 2005 Report Share Posted April 19, 2005 true, but it best be a darn decent section then, because linux users are not that easily attracted, we would have to have many questions and answers, debates and help out a bunch of people before we would start attracting linux professionals or hackers, but nothing is undoable... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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