the corner office

Well, I finally decided to reboot into my Gentoo partition on my home PC. I've been SO keen to get going with Linux on the desktop -- there are really two things which have kept me from spending more time in Linux. Firstly, UNISA assignments. That's not the end of the world, because I could reboot or learn to use Linux tools wherever possible.

The second, and biggie, is that with the working hours I keep, if I can't run Notes on Linux, I can't use Linux.

So, this evening, I decided to give WINE a bash (no pun intended). I've tried this repeatedly over the last 2 years or so, and I've always run into troubles. The closest I came was using an evaluation copy of Codeweavers last year, but even that wasn't stupendously impressive.

So, to my pleasant surprise, this time around it wasn't too bad. With Gentoo, a simple 'emerge wine' to get the latest WINE (20030618), and a copy of Notes 5.0.12. I was expecting the usual pain, and didn't have any. Simple call to setup.exe, and followed the instructions. No major tweaks to the config file, no dll overrides.

So this is typed using WINE!

(WINE is more of a pain to type than wine, and so I'll stick with wine from here on out)

Of course, whether I can develop using wine is another story, but that's my next test.