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On Wed, 03 Feb 2010 19:02:01 +0000 Rob Beard wrote: > Hi folks, > > Further to Terry's mention of World Of Warcraft on Linux, I came > across this... > > http://www.playonlinux.com > > By the looks of it, PlayOnLinux is an easy to use application with a > set of wizards which makes installing and using Windows games (and > some other applications) easy. It uses Wine and looking at the > screen shots supports multiple versions of Wine (something which is > handy as I've found some stuff works on one version of Wine better > than others). > > It has pretty good documentation on the site for creating scripts for > unsupported applications (I say unsupported applications, basically > applications which don't have an installation script rather than an > application which is unsupported by Wine) and has reasonably good > instructions on how to install (although it does involve opening a > terminal and copying and pasting some commands in). > > If anyone out there does have a killer Windows application they want > to run on Linux, this may be worth having a look at. > > Rob Seems it's already in Ubuntu 9.10's Multiverse and in Contrib for Debian Squeeze (current testing) and Sid. Grant. -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html