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Some updates to the faq.

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</para>
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<term><ulink url="http://rewind.sourceforge.net">ReWind</ulink></term>
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</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><ulink url="http://www.transgaming.com">TransGaming's WineX</ulink></term>
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</answer>
</qandaentry>
</qandadiv>
<qandadiv id="What-do-I-need-in-order-to-use-Wine">
<title>What do I need in order to use Wine?</title>
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on how memory hungry the application is.
</para>
<para>
A Wine workstation will work with 16 megabytes of RAM and a 16
megabyte swap partition as long as you have a reasonable graphics
card. Most applications will run reasonably with 64/64 Mb,
interactive games are likely to need more. You can run Wine with 8/8,
but it is going to be unusably slow and very constraining on the
applications you can run. If you wish to be part of the development
team and program Wine itself, be aware that the debugger is rather
memory intensive. Some have suggested that 64 megabytes is the
minimum RAM needed for Wine development, although some are able to
work (albeit slowly) with 24 megabytes of physical RAM and lots of
swap space.
Wine's memory requirements will depend on the application or game
that you choose to run. You will need to meet the minimum requirements for
the application as well as the overhead of your underlying OS.
You may want to check with the vendor of the application for its
suggested memory requirements.
</para>
</answer>
</qandaentry>
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<answer>
<para>
Wine is getting to be quite large, and building from scratch takes a
lot of processing. As of September 2002, compile times were around 20
minutes on an Athlon 1200 with 640 Mb and 45-50 minutes on a Cyrix
300 with 64 Mb. If you have a CVS copy, you may not need to rebuild
the whole thing every time you update.
lot of processing. As of May 2004, compile times were around 10
minutes on a Athlon 2000 with 512 MB of RAM and 20 minutes on a Athlon
1200 with 640 MB of RAM. If you have a CVS copy of wine, you may not need
to rebuild every thing each update.
</para>
</answer>
</qandaentry>
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</para>
</answer>
</qandaentry>
<qandaentry>
<question id="Does-MS-Windows-need-to-be-installed">
<para>
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</para>
</answer>
</qandaentry>
<qandaentry>
<question id="If-Wine-completely-replaces-MS-Windows">
<para>
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</para>
</answer>
</qandaentry>
<qandaentry>
<question id="Will-Wine-run-only-under-X">
<para>Will Wine run only under X, or can it run in character mode?</para>
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</para>
</answer>
</qandaentry>
<qandaentry>
<question id="Will-Wine-run-under-any-X-window-manager">
<para>Will Wine run under any X window manager? Does it require a window manager at all?</para>
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<qandaentry>
<question id="Will-32-bit-applications-run-under-Wine">
<para>Will 32-bit Windows 95/98 applications run under Wine?</para>
<para>Will 32-bit Windows 95/98/ME/NT/2000/XP applications run under Wine?</para>
</question>
<answer>
<para>
Yes, 32-bit programs are now about as well supported as 16-bit
programs.
Yes, 32-bit programs are now well supported.
</para>
</answer>
</qandaentry>
</qandadiv>
<qandadiv id="FAQ-Getting-Wine">
<title>Getting Wine</title>
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</question>
<answer>
<para>
Because of lags created by using mirror, word of the latest release
Because of lags created by using a mirror, word of the latest release
may reach you before the release is actually available at the ftp
sites listed here. The sources are available from the following
locations:
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</itemizedlist>
<para>
It should also be available from any other site that mirrors
ibiblio.org, see <ulink url="http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/MIRRORS.html">http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/MIRRORS.html</>. Some of
these sites may archive previous versions of Wine as well as the
ibiblio.org, see <ulink url="http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/MIRRORS.html">http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/MIRRORS.html</>.
Some of these sites may archive previous versions of Wine as well as the
current one. To determine which is the latest one, look at the
distribution file name, which will take the form
Wine-YYYYMMDD.tar.gz. Simply replace YYYYMMDD in the distribution
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</para>
<para>
Patch files are also available, so that you don't have to download,
install, and configure the entire distribution each week if you are
install, and configure the entire distribution each month if you are
current to the previous release. Patch file release names follow the
same numbering convention as do the general releases, and take the
form
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cd /my/windows/program/directory
wine myprogram.exe
</screen>
<para>
Or alternatively you could download the CodeWeavers Wine preview
which includes .exe extension registration for KDE/Gnome and a nice
setup program.
</para>
</answer>
</qandaentry>
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If you are a programmer and know C, then start debugging
Wine and help us make it better! If you can't, then you will
have to either convince a Wine developer to try and make your
program work (there must be a downloadable version or demo for
that), or hire somebody to do it for you. If this application
is an internal corporate application, you may be able to hire a
Wine developer to do consulting work for you on the matter.
program work (there must be a downloadable version or demo for that).
</para>
<para>
You can submit your application to the <ulink url="http://appdb.winehq.org/">
Wine Application DB </ulink> and gather tips on ways to get your app to work its best.
</para>
<para>
You can also submit your application to the CodeWeavers CrossOver
<ulink url="http://www.codeweavers.com/site/compatibility/"> Compatibility </ulink> Center.
Where you can pledge/vote toward future support of your favorite application.
</para>
<para>
Alternatively, you may be able to get the app working by
taking native DLLs from a Microsoft Windows install, and using
them (set the dlls to native in the config file). Not all DLLs
can be replaced that way - in particular DirectX cannot be, nor
can some core system DLLs like user, ntdll, kernel32 etc
can some core system DLLs like gdi32, user, ntdll, kernel32 etc.
</para>
</answer>
</qandaentry>
<qandaentry>
<question id="Can-I-use-Wine-with-other-Linux-Distros">
<para>Can I use Wine with SUSE, Peanut or other Linux Distro's?</para>
<para>Can I use Wine with SUSE, RedHat or other Linux Distro's?</para>
</question>
<answer>
<para>
You can use Wine on any sufficiently recent Linux installation. The
amount of work getting Wine up and running depends on whether there
are proper packages available or a source compile has to be done.
amount of work getting Wine up and running depends on whether you
install a binary packages or do a source install.
</para>
</answer>
</qandaentry>
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which doesn't exist yet).
</para>
<para>
You should repeat the <command>ps</command> to make sure the old
You should repeat the <command>ps</command> to make sure all of the old
Wine processes are gone.
</para>
</answer>
</qandaentry>
</qandadiv>
<qandadiv id="Getting-help">
<title>Getting help</title>
<qandaentry>
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</answer>
</qandaentry>
</qandadiv>
<qandadiv id="Developing-programs-using-Wine-WineLib">
<title>Developing programs using Wine/WineLib</title>
<qandaentry>
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</answer>
</qandaentry>
</qandadiv>
<qandadiv id="Wine-HQ-issues">
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</question>
<answer>
<para>
There are very valid reasons for doing so.
There are some very valid reasons for doing so.
</para>
</answer>
</qandaentry>
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