Linux is nothing before Windows ?

geminiboy · #1 August 22nd, 2006, 04:09 PM

i want to install a software in linux-ubuntu-6.06 in my company. my company have a software which is windows based software and they want me to run their software in ubuntu6.06. i also install wine but wine is not doing work well as it ask for so many dll files and other files. now let me know what should i have to do to complete my task. if there is no way then linux is nothing before windows. very distrub now a days only because of Linux-Ubuntu-6.06.
do give me reply as soon as possible

keylay31 · #2 August 22nd, 2006, 04:47 PM

Are you asking if you can install ubuntu on a system where Windows is not installed? The answer there is yes. Other than that, Im quite lost as to the question.

geminiboy · #3 August 22nd, 2006, 05:20 PM

dont try to make me keylay31 you know what i said and want to say i again reapeat my question that i am working with a company which have their software in *.exe format i want to run it in Linux but it ask for windows directories and other dll files missing messages.
understand?
got it?
will wait

geminiboy · #4 August 22nd, 2006, 05:56 PM

do give me reply as i am waiting for and have to do lot of work which is stopped only because of LINUX

keylay31 · #5 August 22nd, 2006, 06:36 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by geminiboy

dont try to make me keylay31 you know what i said and want to say i again reapeat my question that i am working with a company which have their software in *.exe format i want to run it in Linux but it ask for windows directories and other dll files missing messages.
understand?
got it?
will wait

No, actually I dont know what you said, I dont understand and I dont got it. I am not trying to make you either, believe it or not. Obviously, if you installed the programs using windows, and they are windows based programs, they will point to files in windows directories. Thats the problem. If you want help, maybe next time you should be less aggressive... and be clearer on your description of the problem instead of blaming someone who is trying to help you because they cant understand your broken english.

**kage** · #6 August 22nd, 2006, 10:06 PM

If you have software you need to run in a company, wine is not good enough. If your company will not let you use open source alternatives, I would suggest you purchase windows licenses for the machines in question, and run windows.

jediforce · #7 August 23rd, 2006, 10:29 PM

some software are designed only for windows, just as others are designed to only run in linux. wine is only an emulator. tell them that it won't run properly

geminiboy · #8 August 30th, 2006, 02:59 PM

then i was/am right that linux is nothing before windows

jediforce · #9 August 30th, 2006, 03:27 PM

nope. it's just different. great for programmers to use and makes a great server too.

keylay31 · #10 August 30th, 2006, 08:34 PM

what does "linux is nothing before windows" mean? Linux is not any good compared to windows? this isnt true.

Lord_Anthrax · #11 August 31st, 2006, 12:47 PM

Saying that is just niave on so many levels, I'm 17 and I find Linux very reliable and flexible. Easy to use too. It seems to me you're blaming Linux for your incompetence of .exe formats. The posts above answer your question anyway.

(Of course I still have my elusive Ubuntu Internet problem but that's a different story

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**smurfy** · #12 August 31st, 2006, 01:44 PM

geminiboy, I understand there has been a little bit of a language barrier to be crossed here but I understood your question perfectly and also your attitude.

Let me put it quite clearly for you.

Linux is not Windows.
Linux is not Mac OS.
Linux is not Unix.

You can NOT blame Linux for not supporting Windows native executables any more than you can blame Mac O/S for the same inability.
Software developers program their software to run on a specific operating system. Because of Microsoft's market dominance, the majority of commercial software developers only spend money developing their code on the platform their customers use. That's called a sensible business model. Good software developers (particularly in the open-source community) design cross-platform code and compile it for multiple operating systems.

So you have an application that has only been programmed/compiled to run on a Windows platform.
Wine is the free tool to TRY to run Windows executables in Linux. There are commercial implementations such as crossover for business products or Cedega for gaming.
If you want to try to get it working using Wine, I thoroughly recommend Franks corner http://frankscorner.org/ which helps set up fake windows directories using WineTools and solves many of the dependency issues you will be experiencing.