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Windows Drivers Under Linux?

Posted by michael on Sunday October 19, 2003 @06:21AM from the last-resort dept.

sniggly writes "The Inquirer has an article about how Montreal, CA based Linuxant has created a 'compatibility wrapper' allowing standard Windows NDIS 5.0 drivers to work on linux. After pointing to another project allowing windows printer drivers to work on OS/2 the author asks 'Are printer and network card drivers going to become, over time, a commodity with Win32 drivers one day the 'de-facto standard' run via wrappers?"

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Re:Bad idea by shaitand · 2003-10-19 09:00 · Score: 0, Flamebait

Why on earth would anyone praise wine for supporting the creation of windows binaries? The world would be a better place without windows binaries. Do something useful, stop compiling windows binaries and compile linux binaries on your linux box.