Baslinux mailing list

[James Miller <jamtat AT mailsnare.net>]

On Sun, Feb 18, 2007 at 09:23:00PM +0000, sindi keesan wrote:
> Someone suggested WINE might take up less space than Win98 (150MB).
> The precompiled binary bz2 for Slackware 10.1, 10.2 or 11.0 is about 10MB 
> and the source code 11MB.  I don't want to compile it.  Does anyone know 
> of a precompiled version for Slackware 8.1 or earlier?

I do not know of a pre-compiled version and have doubts whether a WINE 
version from that era 
would even run the target software.

In the case of WINE, you should always go with the very latest version you 
can get. The 
project progresses rapidly and you should count on Windows applications to 
run much better 
on the most recent versions (or they may not run at all under older versions, 
whereas they 
will under newer). You might need to download the latest release and compile 
it yourself to 
accomplish what you want.

James