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"Missing Link" In Windows Emulation Unveiled?
ben_ writes "According to this article on inq7.net, a Philippines company called SpecOps has revealed their Project David, a middleware layer that solves the problem Wine has been working at for years and will "enable all major Microsoft Windows applications to run on the free and open source Linux OS".
Further (and more sceptical) analysis at Linux Electrons." I'm with Linux Electrons on this; as nice as it sounds, the information about David comes via Press Release which as we all know are founts of dependability *cough*.
It's only symbolic.
I won't tell them if you don't :D
Release a completely free high quality Windows emulator. It worked for OS/2.
Government of the people, by corporate executives, for corporate profits.
The legality of that scenario depends on what Microsoft tells the DOJ the legality is.
More music, fewer hits
...my investment money?
I mean with a page like this I can trust them right?
You know, they DO have place holders. I guess it's better than all the fake links they have around the site.
Thanks...
I'm glad to know I have 'rare' drivers
I'm afraid that under the DCMA, the United States would be able to:
In conclusion, please do not violate the DCMA.
I'm not Seth Finkelstein. I still speak the truth.
Everyone knows that the major Windows apps are:
Now, if you'll excuse me, I'll get back to tracking down that 2 or clubs I need to finish up my work for today...
It's another closed-source implementation of the WinAPI by a company I dont trust, only this one is much smaller, and with less resources.
That's AWESOME!
Haven't you seen the Microsoft ads? There is no TCO advantage in linux.
Change it to "Winspire" ASAP!
Don't blame Durga. I voted for Centauri.
If you store it on the Desktop, it won't take any space on the C Drive, right? ;)
Escher was the first MC and Giger invented the HR department.
Hey!
Everything I know about SCO I learnt from Press releases!
So I'll my $699 insurance policy will keep me safe when Darl comes around and makes you wipe Linux from your X-box!
(No, I am not being serious, but I understand that its Monday morning, so I figgered I'd include a disclaimer for those of us still asleep).
Norman Cook's Ode to Sl
Yeah, but who decides what the major applications are?
On Windows: General Protection.
On OS X: Colonel Panic.
"they're at 0% of dev / engineering."
Well... you have to give it to them... they still don't have any bugs
Well... you have to give it to them... they still don't have any bugs
Sure they do. They have exactly one bug: Windows programs fail to execute when run under Linux.
The webpage isn't brokem it's just that they are running it on IIS under their emulation and there are still a few bugs to work out.... ...yeah, that's it...
The party of stupid and the party of evil get together and do something both stupid and evil, then call it bipartisan.
You're new here aren't you?
Assuming this is not Vaporware, I wonder if they are going to implement a BSOD into thier kernel module for every time thier WES or whatever it's called crashes!
Yeah right. You'd rather be raped up the arse by Bill Gates {who, incidentally, buys dead babies from the abortion unit at the Seattle Royal Infirmary just so he can stamp on their faces} than use an operating system designed for the People, by the People, and with the People in control?
If you really mean what you are saying {as opposed to saying it just to provoke a reaction} then you are seriously fucked up. I'd recommend you go to Belgium or the Netherlands, as they have an operation there which will undoubtedly cure your condition. If you can't afford the air fare, I hear you can pick up a surprising number of coins from railway tracks -- people drop them down train toilets all the time. Be sure to go at night, wearing black from head to foot, in order that nobody will see you and arrest you. Due to centrifugal force phenomena, the heaviest {and therefore highest denomination} coins are often found near curves.
What a recompiler would do is rewrite the winA() to linuxA() on the fly.. not much different, no real help.
Lets put it this way. Under WINE, a Windows application can inferface the OS though either a replacement WINE project DDL or native-Window-OS DDL which run under a form of emulation, calling lower down replacement WINE project DDLs. The former replacement WINE project DDL can be incomplete, missing functionality. The latter native-Window-OS DDL is often more compatable for Windows applications but run slower on the host OS.
Running that native-Window-OS DDLs though a theoretical re-compiler, which performs global short-circuiting, should produce a binary that provides the same functionality of the native-Window-OS DDL but runs closer to the speed of a replacement WINE project DDL.
In the same way, the same theoretical re-compiler would perform global short-circuiting on the application's own DDLs and executable, producing faster executing code.
Therefore, I propose this naming scheme: the GNU stuff will be called "GNU", the kernel will be called "Linux" or "the Linux kernel", and the OS will be called "insert distro name here". RMS's foo/bar naming system gets too complicated if you really try for accuracy, and people will make fun of you if you use it, so perhaps we can appease him by throwing random links to the GNU project in our discussions of what OS we're running.
So there you go -- operating system = kernel + shell. (One could argue for a bootloader as well)
So you're telling me I have to start calling my OS Korn/Linux? (At least I'm not stuck running Csh/Linux. That OS sucks.)
I do believe that half of zero is still zero :-)
Of course it exists and I've got the source code right here:
#!/bin/bash
# David source code: david.sh
# Warning: Strictly confidential!!!
str=$1
while [ "$1" != "" ]
do
shift
str="$str $1"
done
wine $str
Is there nothing better for you to do with your time than argue over stupid stuff like this? Be productive and do something more than this with your time. Wait. WTF am I doing!
Hey... MY name is David, and I don't appreciate it being associated with some windows crap. Can I sue them for using my intellectual property?
If they wanted to name it after someone, they should have called it 'Melinda'... I'm sure that would have bothered Bill in a way he couldn't legally do anything about (his wife's name).