what diffrence between Cedega, wine, crossover???

[AHAROON111]

what diffrence between Cedega, wine, crossover

i know all of them let me install windows app on Linux but what is the diffrence between then? which one is the best?

[mimosh]

Re: what diffrence between Cedega, wine, crossover

Wine is WINdows Emulator
Cadega is Wine but with DirectX support
Crossover - don't know!

Someone to correct me if I'm wrong

[Fintan]

Re: what diffrence between Cedega, wine, crossover

Crossover (found in google):
http://www.codeweavers.com/products/

This ,may be interesting as well (found in google):
http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...winehq-309192/

You might have a look here as well (found by searching this site):
http://kubuntuforums.net/forums/inde...opic=3090776.0

If you are not gaming and want to run apps stabily I would suggest the vmware path.

There is lots to read about vmware here as well.

[AHAROON111]

Re: what diffrence between Cedega, wine, crossover

thanks maybe one told us about crossover

[cantab]

Re: what diffrence between Cedega, wine, crossover

[quote user=http://wiki.winehq.org/FAQ]Wine is the base of the project, where most of the work is being done. Wine is currently a beta software project, intended mainly for developers, testers, and early adopters at the moment. Despite Wine's beta limitations, tens of thousands of people nevertheless use "vanilla" Wine successfully to run a large number of Windows programs.

CrossOver Linux is a product made by CodeWeavers that is based directly on Wine with a few proprietary add-ons. Unlike the biweekly Wine releases, CrossOver releases are rigorously tested for compatibility with CodeWeavers' supported applications in order to prevent regressions. CodeWeavers employs a large portion of the Wine developers and provides a great deal of leadership for the project. All improvements to Wine eventually work their way into CrossOver.

Cedega is a product from TransGaming. TransGaming forked Wine back in 2002 when Wine had a different license, closed their source code, and rebranded their version as specialized for gamers. TransGaming currently gives back very little code to Wine. Cedega is not just "Wine with more gaming support" - many games run better under Wine than Cedega. Currently, Wine has more advanced Direct3D support than Cedega, but Cedega still has more advanced copy protection support due to TransGaming's licensing of (closed source) code from a handful of copy protection companies. Unlike CrossOver, most improvements to Wine don't get into Cedega due to Cedega's proprietary licensing.[/quote]

So, if you want to run productivity apps, and can't risk them breaking when Wine is upgraded, go with CrossOver if your program is listed as supported. If you want to run games, try plain Wine (or CrossOver if you have it), or see if Cedega supports it.

Wine is of course free. CrossOver seems to use a 'conventional' pricing where you pay for each version, with a 30-day trial. Cedega's licensing is a (cheap) subscription to receive new versions, but you can still use the ones you have if you stop subscribing.

All of those three share the following compared to using virtual machines like Qemu or VMWare.:

+ They can take better advantage of the hardware and have better performance (some applications run faster on Wine than on Windows!).
+ They don't require a Windows license.
- Not all programs work.
- Anything that on Windows requires WGA to consider your system legal for you to download it won't work on Wine. Updates to MS Office should not require WGA.

The January 2008 issue (#101) of the UK magazine Linux Format includes a guide on how to turn an OEM install of Windows into a disk image for running in a virtual machine like VMWare. This will save you having to get a retail license or pirate.

[dwneylonsr]

Re: what diffrence between Cedega, wine, crossover

Wine is WINdows Emulator

Someone to correct me if I'm wrong

Wine Is Not an Emulator.
http://www.winehq.org/

[Pajoe]

Re: what diffrence between Cedega, wine, crossover

Wine is WINdows Emulator

Someone to correct me if I'm wrong

Wine Is Not an Emulator.
http://www.winehq.org/

I think you are correct. I also use VirtualBox, it seems to work really well with XP as a client. There are two versions, the Open Source and the binary that is free with the biggest difference being USB support in the free binary from VirtualBox.

I purchased every version of cxoffice from when it was a crossover plugin up to 6.1 but now it no longer runs on my system. I am not sure why but when I tried VirtualBox it worked bettter.The down side its you must have a copy of windows to use VirtualBox, whereas with the others you don't.

[Fintan]

Re: what diffrence between Cedega, wine, crossover

+ They can take better advantage of the hardware and have better performance (some applications run faster on Wine than on Windows!).

I tend to disagree. My xp guest running in player is just as fast and much more stable than any HD install I have had.

The January 2008 issue (#101) of the UK magazine Linux Format includes a guide on how to turn an OEM install of Windows into a disk image for running in a virtual machine like VMWare. This will save you having to get a retail license or pirate.

If you have a halfway stable version of xp installed then have a look here:
http://www.howtoforge.com/vmware_con..._windows_linux

The just install the newest vmware player from here:
http://www.vmware.com/download/player/


Now you can run your guest system and uninstall all of your malware and anti-everything software, firewalls etc. You won't be needing them because linux is the host system.
make a copy of your defattened system as a backup.