Dan -<br><br>I just a presentation last week at our local LUG and here&#39;s what I did.&nbsp; (And for reference, this is the first time in almost 2 years I&#39;ve had Linux and Wine loaded on my laptop - I like what you guys did with the place.)<br>
<br>1.&nbsp; I gave the presentation in Powerpoint 2003 and CrossOver Office.&nbsp; I started the presentation on a separate desktop before anyone saw me do it, so they didn&#39;t know it was Powerpoint.&nbsp; At the appropriate time during the presentation for eye candy, I pressed ESC and said - &quot;And here&#39;s Powerpoint&quot;.&nbsp; I also pointed out that it runs so stunningly well that&#39;s it&#39;s completely unimpressive.. and that&#39;s exactly what Wine should be.&nbsp; I also started up Word quickly to show it running.<br>
<br>2.&nbsp; Oh, all of these demos were shortcuts on my desktop so I could start them quickly.<br><br>3.&nbsp; I ran Wine&#39;s iexplore.exe and let it load <a href="http://winehq.org">winehq.org</a>.&nbsp; Then I explained some architecture stuff like how it was a Wine MSHTML.DLL connecting to a Windows Gecko engine for rendering.&nbsp; It was also a brief intro intro into what a Winelib app was.<br>
<br>4.&nbsp; Then I VERY briefly showed off Wine&#39;s regedit, mostly as an intro for folks to understand Wine has a registry.<br><br>5.&nbsp; Finally, I ran 3DMark2001SE to show off 3D.&nbsp; I wish I could have gotten 3DMark05 or 06 running, and I suspect I could have with some prodding, but they do seem to require a software purchase and license key to do anything cool.&nbsp; At least 01 is D3D8 and there&#39;s good demo&#39;s that don&#39;t require a license key.&nbsp; 01 does have some good eye candy - I let the demos run for about 10 minutes while I used a whiteboard to illustrate some architecture stuff with Wine.&nbsp; Note: if you run 3D demos on a projector you might want to consider using desktop mode.&nbsp; I got lucky and the projector was ok with the resolution resizing and it only had a bit of a glitch.&nbsp; I do suspect a lot of projectors will be unhappy with Wine changing resolutions.&nbsp; <br>
<br>I considered showing off a real game, like WoW or Call of Duty, but the real problem was the sheer size of the downloads - 600MB and the install size, 16GB, which my little laptop just wasn&#39;t up for since I was putting the 3D demo together at the last minute.&nbsp; Also, I wanted something that would run automatically that I didn&#39;t have to interact with, hence the 3DMark01 demo.<br>
<br>6.&nbsp; You might want to consider showing off Google&#39;s Picasa and it&#39;s custom Wine implementation.&nbsp; I almost did.. and you&#39;d know even more about the guts of that.<br><br>-Brian<br>