Subject: WABI

From: Jim Worthington <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 03 Sep 1996 23:22:06 -0400

What is the present status of WABI for Linux?

How well does it perform?

Thanks,

Jim

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From: "Brian C. White" <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 04 Sep 1996 01:18:38 -0400

> What is the present status of WABI for Linux?

I've built "wine" package for debian and update it occasionally.

> How well does it perform?

Pretty lousy.  It's _very_ alpha.  It runs most of the windows applets
okay, but no real apps that I know of.

You can find it in project/experimental.
                                             
                                          Brian
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From: borik the Boris Yati Beletsky <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 4 Sep 1996 15:54:50 +0300 (IDT)

On Wed, 4 Sep 1996, Brian C. White wrote:

|>Date: Wed, 04 Sep 1996 01:18:38 -0400
|>From: "Brian C. White" <[email-masked]>
|>To: [email-masked]
|>Cc: Debian Users <[email-masked]>
|>Subject: Re: WABI
|>
|>> What is the present status of WABI for Linux?
|>
|>I've built "wine" package for debian and update it occasionally.
i am sorry
just interested , where can i get this pkg?
thks for u're time
borik

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Boris Beletsky <[email-masked]>
(finger [email-masked] for pgp public key)

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From: Jim Worthington <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 04 Sep 1996 09:44:29 -0400

> just interested , where can i get this pkg?

I stumbled across a newsgroup called linux.dev.wabi.  I didn't see any
mention of wine, but I did get the impression that Sun wabi software was
being recompiled for Linux.  At the time I thought that it was strange
that Sun would release their source code but perhaps they were looking
for beta testers.  It was late, I'm not really sure what I saw, but I
thought that there were pointers to a Sun site, presumably to get the
source code.

Jim

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From: "Christopher R. Hertel" <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 4 Sep 1996 13:46:50 -0500

I knew I was keeping this around for a reason...

> Subject: Wabi on Linux
:
: Info on Wabi for Linux:
:
: -----------------------------------------
: The Caldera Solutions CD
:
: Wabi will ship on the Caldera Solutions CD, which will be included
: with every shipment of the Caldera Network Desktop. The
: CD-ROM contains mainstream applications, including WordPerfect,
: CorelDRAW and Delrina Forms Flow Filler, ported to Caldera's
: Linux platform by both Caldera and its Independent Vendor Partners.
: Customers can easily purchase and unlock these products, including
: Wabi, directly from the CD-ROM using GLOBEtrotter's FLEXlm
: license manager software. By placing their products on the Caldera
: Solutions CD, Caldera's third-party development partners can offer
: products on the industry's first commodity-priced UNIX-based
: platform. These applications will ship on a single CD-ROM, from
: which System Integrators, VARs and consultants can purchase and
: install from the CD-ROM the combination of software that meets
: the unique needs of each customer.
:
: Availability and Pricing
:
: Caldera plans to ship Wabi on the Caldera Solutions CD during the
: next quarter. Wabi on the Caldera Solutions CD will sell for less
: than $200.
:
: -----------------------------------------
:
: Q: When will Windows 95 applications be supported in Wabi?
:
: A: A certified list of Windows 95 applications (including MS Office
:    95, SmartSuite 96, plus currently supported 16 bit applications
:    will be supported in Q1 (CY97) in Wabi 3.0.
:
:    This is the current plan, subject to change.

-- 
Christopher R. Hertel -)-----                   University of Minnesota
[email-masked]              Networking and Telecommunications Services

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From: Syrus Nemat-Nasser <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 4 Sep 1996 13:28:06 -0700 (PDT)

> thought that there were pointers to a Sun site, presumably to get the

FWIW, I believe that WABI will be available for purchase from Caldera in
conjunction with their "Network Desktop" which runs on top of Red Hat
Linux.  WABI will not come with source code as it will not be free.  It
probably can run on Debian Linux, but Caldera will not support it on
anything other than their system.  Caldera has some documentation regarding
WABI for Linux on their web page.

Syrus.

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Syrus Nemat-Nasser <[email-masked]>    UCSD Physics Dept.

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From: Jim Pick <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 04 Sep 1996 11:50:13 -0700

> thought that there were pointers to a Sun site, presumably to get the

It was my impression that wine and WABI are two separate things.  I believe
Caldera has licensed Sun's WABI and it is available for their distribution.
I don't think that you can use it with any other distributions.

Cheers,

 - another Jim

(oops, forgot to reply to the mailing list in my first attempt, sorry)

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From: Shaya Potter <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 4 Sep 1996 22:13:53 -0400 (EDT)

Just to get this settled, Caldera has licesned the wabi source code from 
SUN, and they are porting it over to linux.  It most likely will cost 
money, because Sun doesn't just give away the source code.  If you want 
more information on it, I would suggest you look at Caldera's web page
http://www.caldera.com

Hope this helps,

Shaya
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Shaya Potter
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