[Gllug] Trips or traps? A single home partition sharedbetween 2 distributions

[Andy Millar]

For games, have you tried wine (or cedega / winex?)

I last used that to play windows games about 2 years ago and it wasn't too bad. 

Games like the sims should be supported. 

I also haven't tried office under wine - that might be an interesting thing to try?

- Andy


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Sent: Wed May 07 20:53:31 2008
Subject: Re: [Gllug] Trips or traps? A single home partition sharedbetween	2	distributions


On Fri, 2008-05-02 at 08:41 +0100, John Winters wrote:


	why not a virtal machine on an
	existing box providing the required distribution installation?
	


If it wasn't that my kids want to boot win98 and XP for games then that would be a solution - even for running XP with "office" applications.

I'm not at all sure how well virtualisation would work with windows games seeing as they address hardware very directly. Has anyone done this with games and if with success, what games?

At their age - 5 and 11 - then it ain't carmageddon or cartheft murder extreme or whatever is the latest ultra violent shoot em up we are talking about! My daughter is nuts about the Sims and wants to play Sim Cities Societies which so far we haven't had a computer in the house with enough cpu and video power to run, so haven't been able to play with her Xmas present yet!!!



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