[slackintosh-users] Re: Slackintosh 12.2?

  • From: "Jeremy Mann" <jeremy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: slackintosh-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Mon, 5 Jan 2009 13:40:29 -0600 (CST)

Adrian Ulrich wrote:
>> you are allowed to skip one release from time to time !:-)
>> please one stupid question : I failed in compiling Wine ;
>> is it possible to do this on PPC with this distro, or not ?
>> thanks again
>
> Wine?! Wine Is Not an Emulator : Wine just gives an application a
> Win32-API but it doesn't
> emulate/convert any x86 code.
>
> It would be possible to compile Wine on PPC/Sparc/ARM but it's pretty
> pointless as
> there are no (?) Win32-Binaries for PowerPC.

If Marco needs hardware, I can give him ssh access to my dual 1Ghz PPC Mac
here at work. I'll need it during the day (Central Time), but after 5pm
she can be all yours ;) Currently, I have Slack 12 with Dropline Gnome.


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