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Fun With Wine

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the on-a-boring-sunday-afternoon dept.

taviso writes "Ever wondered what would happen if you could compile and run cygwin under wine ? What about compiling wine under cygwin ? well these guys have, and are planning to nest the two environments as many times as possible to see if wine can take the strain, and not without good reason: 'Having such virtualization environments run within each other is an important milestone in the lives of these projects, it is a remarkable technical feat that requires a great deal of maturity'. "

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  1. What's this? by QuietRiot · · Score: 4, Funny

    What's this, cygwine?

    1. Re:What's this? by stefanlasiewski · · Score: 3, Funny

      Fine Wine and Cygars?

      --
      "Can of worms? The can is open... the worms are everywhere."
  2. Cute title but... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    Imagine parents checking the browser history and discovering their 14-years-old read a page called "Fun With Wine".

    1. Re:Cute title but... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

      Speaking as a former 14 year old who had his browser history checked, I'd say thats the least of his concerns ;).

    2. Re:Cute title but... by isorox · · Score: 3, Funny

      Imagine parents checking the browser history and discovering their 14-years-old read a page called "Fun With Wine".

      Knowing parents they'll stop the kids using the computer. Knowing kid's, (s)he'll whine.

      *groan*

    3. Re:Cute title but... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

      Imagine parents checking the browser history and discovering their 14-years-old read a page called "Fun With Wine".
      I would of course promptly switch them to beer.

  3. Try this by mfos.org · · Score: 3, Funny

    Run VTI (A TI calculator emulator) under Wine. Then in VTI, run Tezxas (A ZX Spectrum emulator)

  4. let me get this right.... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    1)install wine and cygwin
    2) ???
    3) Fun!!

  5. Turtles, all the way down... by Jack+William+Bell · · Score: 3, Funny

    So, is my attempt to use my /. journal as a weblog kinda the same thing? I wonder if someone could use the comment section in one of my entries as a mini-/. ? Then someone could use the comments to that for a weblog and...

    I gotta stop now. My head hurts.

    Jack William Bell

    --
    - -
    Are you an SF Fan? Are you a Tru-Fan?
  6. Great! by flikx · · Score: 5, Funny
    A new level for my evil pile!

    Windows -> VMWare -> Linux -> Wine -> Cygwin -> Wine.

    And finally, a stable, enterprise-ready solution for running my Windows applications.

    --
    One future, two choices. Oppose them or let them destroy us.
  7. Re:Wonderful. by boy_of_the_hash · · Score: 4, Funny

    Look on the bright side.

    At last a perverse heterogeneous enviroment exists that allows developers to draw on the combined flaws and incompatabilities of linux, windows, cygwin and wine. Which (aside from the uber-cool element), is a boon for masochistic developers everywhere. Perhaps this will spur a new breed of coders that are the cyber-culture equivilent of flagellation cults.

    Then again, I probably should go a little easier on the wine.

  8. Believe it or not... by shaitand · · Score: 2, Funny

    I've done this and tests like it under various emulations of systems, yes mostly because I was bored and it is definately useless. What ever happened to geeks who tried to do difficult things... just to see if they could and to hell with practical purpose?

  9. Why run the whole thing under x86? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    Virtual PC emulates a PC perfectly, so that you can run windows 2000 or a linux distro on it just as though it were a PC.

    I say, run The Sims under WINE under CYGWIN under WINE under {Linux Distro} under Virtual PC under Mac Os 9 environment under Mac OS X.

    And not pay Microsoft a penny.

  10. XBOXBochsLinuxWineWin98Virtual PC... by Doomrat · · Score: 5, Funny

    How about installing Linux on an XBox, running Bochs on it, installing Linux onto the Bochs machine, running Virtual PC under Wine, installing Windows 98 on Virtual PC, running WinUae on it, installing Linux onto the emulated Amiga, running Bochs on the emulated Amiga...

    OR you could go out and have sex with a woman, one with breasts and everything.

    1. Re:XBOXBochsLinuxWineWin98Virtual PC... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

      Well, it's a tough choice.

  11. Heh by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Although I know he's referring to software maturity, its still funny to hear "Lets see how many x we can y" and "maturity" in the same breath (or sentence, as the case may be)

  12. Re:No... by bigdavex · · Score: 2, Funny

    No, it's a party trick.

    All of slashdot wants to know -- Are there girls at these parties?

    --
    -Dave
  13. Emulator in emulator in emul... by weird+mehgny · · Score: 5, Funny

    ...finally something (other than Doom 3) that gives us a use for the 3 GHz P4.

  14. Re:Wonderful. by Monkelectric · · Score: 3, Funny
    I am not at all interested in paying for the crossover plugin.

    I to am frustrated at the difficlty of finding linux waerz :D

    --

    Religion is a gateway psychosis. -- Dave Foley

  15. Alcoholic processing by LostCluster · · Score: 2, Funny

    If you put cygwin under wine under cygwin under wine too many times, and it starts to process incohently, would that effect be caused by the fact that the computer is drunk?