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Wine gets better, but not perfect, with age

Wine gets better, but not perfect, with age

Posted Nov 4, 2010 14:32 UTC (Thu) by promotion-account (guest, #70778)
In reply to: Wine gets better, but not perfect, with age by wookey
Parent article: Wine gets better, but not perfect, with age

Indeed. There are lots of software areas outside of the free software realm; a recent case I faced was software for programming different kinds of hearing aids.


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Wine gets better, but not perfect, with age

Posted Nov 5, 2010 15:20 UTC (Fri) by tnoo (subscriber, #20427) [Link]

Most data loggers can just be programmed with some Windows software. Unfortunately they usually need Serial or USB ports, which only sometimes work under Wine. What usually works is Windows XP under Virtualbox, but this is not as fine-grained as having apps run under Wine, and the Windows are not managed by the X11 window manager.

Good serial communication would be vital for this task.

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