"Wine" & "Crossover Office" with Solaris 10 GA 03/05

Hello Solaris - Friends,
in Solaris there is the Windows - Emulator "Wine" Version 20041019 (I know, that's not an Emulator ...). Has anybody of you tested it with success ? Please, can you show me your Wine - config - file?
And is there anybody, who tested the commercial "Wine" - Version called "Crossover Office" ? Under http://www.codeweavers.com there is a 30 Day Trial - Download (you must only register with your E-Mail).
Thanks and Greetings !

That's correct. I don't get why there is so much hype behind Linux, but it is what it is. I have a good 5 years experience with many GNU/Linux distributions on many architectures, but I must admit it has no real technical merit no matter the vendor modifying the components which make it up.
QEMU and Linux compatibility (Janus I believe) helps, but until VMware, Parallels, and the Windows-only application vendors start porting their software to Java or natively, you'll have a bare selection of commercial desktop software. Another problem is that Adobe isn't updating the Flash player on Solaris for either SPARC or x86, and just delivered Flash 9 to Linux, so everyone except Solaris has it, and many sites like YouTube and even some Sun-oriented sites are broken on Flash 7 or force you to try and upgrade to Flash 9 when we all know it ain't there. FreeBSD's linux-compat is much more mature than Solaris', it can even run Linux versions of Realplayer, Opera, and Firefox with Linux-only plugins. VMware due to licensing and marketing is no longer available on FreeBSD, will never be ported to Solaris x86 with the current lack of marketing Sun puts toward their OS. Everyone except Sun has featured TV ads, until Sun does, their stocks will remain at 6 or less, with no commercial backing except in the server sector.
OpenSolaris these days is making great desktop progress and has a few applications that replace those proprietary titles which have chosen to not support Solaris x86. (Adobe Reader replaced by GPdf and Evince)
Sorry to go on a tangent, but I know Sun employees read these forums, and they need to know the important deficiencies. They're mainly superficial if you have the patience to hunt and find open-source wares from sourceforge and freshmeat, but then there are a few things that haven't been successfully replaced. (Flash)
Most GNU, BSD, and FOSS software is ported to Solaris, but Wine and some MPlayer codecs are the notable exceptions.
Happy hunting! (PS: I recommend watching the OpenSolaris communities for desktop approachability, KDE, and the one that deals with QEMU kernel modules)

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http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-8/upgrade-to-windows-8
If you want to install Windows Media Center, you need to add features to
Windows 8.1, and what I have to point out is there is a difference between Windows 8 and Window 8 Pro when add packages to Windows Media Center:
http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-8/feature-packs
Regards
Wade Liu
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Dual Booting OEM WIN 8.1 with Win 8.1 with UEFI enabled

I am a college student.I use Lenovo Z510 which has full UEFI with 1TB hdd of which 931gb is free.I shrinked it to 2 X 465 GB partitions of which one has oem install of win 8.1 with my personal stuff and games.My course requires a clean install of win 8.1 for various softwares like creo, catia.I want to install a clean win 8.1 for college and projects on my second partition with the same oem license...I have prepared a fresh win 8.1 usb with windows media creation tool....but i dont know how to proceed for a sucessful full UEFI installationhow do i do that ? guys ..help me...when i googled it came across efi and two other partitions...what should i do ?also i have no plans to upgrade to win 10 as it doesnt support the existing versions of design softwarea

I tried to boot windows from UEFI shell ( tried to map all the possible partitions with command "map"
) , but had no success. (when going, for example, into blk0: ; writing : "ls", error was displayed : "no file exists"
Looks like you were trying to use UNIX commands? <eg>
Try using diskpart instead?
Robert Aldwinckle
There have been some cases where an EFI deployment of Windows has failed, and you have to use the system's EFI shell to boot the OS manually. The 'map' command is used after booting into the shell (if it does not run by default) to show which volumes exist
on the system.
See here for more info:
https://software.intel.com/en-us/articles/efi-shells-and-scripting
The specs for the tablet in question seem to indicate it only has 16GB "disk" for the OS to use. A standard Windows 8.1 core/pro would not be viable and Windows 8.1 with Bing is not available to the public. Since the tablet is already licensed
for Windows 8.1 with Bing, it would be best to get the recovery solution from the manufacturer. Otherwise you'd have to purchase a new license and then the OS may not have enough space to install/use properly.

Dual Booting OEM WIN 8.1 with Win 8.1 with UEFI

I use Lenovo Z510 which has full UEFI with 1TB hdd of which 931gb is free.I shrinked it to 2 X 465 GB partitions of which one has oem install of win 8.1 with my personal stuff and games.My course requires a clean install of win 8.1 for various softwares like creo, catia.I want to install a clean win 8.1 for college and projects on my second partition with the same oem license...I have prepared a fresh win 8.1 usb with windows media creation tool....but i dont know how to proceed for a sucessful full UEFI installationhow do i do that ? guys ..help me...when i googled it came across efi and two other partitions...what should i do ?

I tried to boot windows from UEFI shell ( tried to map all the possible partitions with command "map"
) , but had no success. (when going, for example, into blk0: ; writing : "ls", error was displayed : "no file exists"
Looks like you were trying to use UNIX commands? <eg>
Try using diskpart instead?
Robert Aldwinckle
There have been some cases where an EFI deployment of Windows has failed, and you have to use the system's EFI shell to boot the OS manually. The 'map' command is used after booting into the shell (if it does not run by default) to show which volumes exist
on the system.
See here for more info:
https://software.intel.com/en-us/articles/efi-shells-and-scripting
The specs for the tablet in question seem to indicate it only has 16GB "disk" for the OS to use. A standard Windows 8.1 core/pro would not be viable and Windows 8.1 with Bing is not available to the public. Since the tablet is already licensed
for Windows 8.1 with Bing, it would be best to get the recovery solution from the manufacturer. Otherwise you'd have to purchase a new license and then the OS may not have enough space to install/use properly.

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