On Mar 31, 2005 11:13 PM, Marius Andreiana <malists@xxxxxxx> wrote: > After a few days of struggling with wine-20050310-1fc3winehq, I can > finally report success! I've added to fedora extras development cvs the > following packages and I request a build for them: > > - iis 8.2 (Microsoft Internet Information Server) > I hope it will be included in Fedora Core 5 and by Fedora Core 7 it will > be the default instead of buggy Apache > I'm still working on support of ASP.NET (using mono) > > - iexplorer 6.1 > Internet Explorer is the most critical missing piece from a decent > desktop! This prevents reports I get from my users like 'Linux is slow > and no multi-tasking, it can only open one window when surfing the net. > Explorer opens so many so fast!' > > - msibuild 3.0 > This was working since wine-20050105, when MSI support was added, but I > was waiting for the other packages to really test it. This supports > building software packages with Microsoft Software Installer instead of > current rpm. So, rather than current feature-less situation when you > double click a .rpm file and it installs, and you can know each file on > what package belongs and it can uninstall cleanly, one can have now > enterprise-level software installs: double click an .exe file, it > uncompresses, it runs install, user can press Next several times (gives > a feeling of interactivity), he can choose to install in /usr, > in /usr/local or /prgfiles and so on. On uninstall it automatically > detects what files might be used by other programs, so they can be left > on the system. > > That's it for now, next I'll work on anti-virus and anti-spyware (FREE > for personal use!) > > I'm CCing this to fedora-list too, I think this is important news for > everybody! > > -- > Marius Andreiana > Epon -- future-proof business applications > http://www.epon.ro > Happy April Fools Day to you too!
