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OSNews Interviews WINE's Alexandre Julliard

Posted by Hemos on from the much-development-happening dept.

Eugenia writes "OSNews talks with Alexandre Julliard, the WINE project leader and also CodeWeaver's coder, regarding the future of WINE, the obstacles of the development, the WINE commercialization and lots more. An interesting read overall."

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  1. Re:Obstacles by Eloquence · · Score: 3, Interesting

    DR-DOS would be a better example. And in Caldera v. Microsoft, the actual danger for projects like WINE became visible: "We are supposed to give the user the option of continuing after the warning; however, we should surely crash at some point shortly later..." -- David Cole, head of Windows development, e-mail from 1991 regarding the detection of DR-DOS when running Windows 3.1

  2. Excellent Project by 4of12 · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I can't say enough good things about the potential for this project to bring open source operating systems to the public at large.

    Backwards compatibility to previous versions of (closed) Windows is the biggest obstacle most casual users have with migrating to Linux. All that shrink-wrapped software purchased over the past 15 years - it has to work.

    Sheesh, even MS has backwards compatibility as its biggest obstacle to getting users to upgrade to the "next" OS.

    WINE can make a serious upgrade happen.

    --
    "Provided by the management for your protection."
  3. Re:Printing by (startx) · · Score: 2, Interesting

    it basically sets up LPT1: (or whatever you pick) to point to lpr

  4. Internet Explorer with Flash5? by rseuhs · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Hi!

    A friend of mine boots into Windows for one and only one purpose:

    He has to operate a flash5-site from his company that does not work on anything else than Internet Explorer. (And yes, I have checked Netscape and Mozilla on both Windows and Linux, and yes other Flash-sites work great.)

    I've played a bit with Wine and could run Internet Explorer5 (from Win98SE) but without any flash.

    Did anybody successfully run IE with Flash on Wine?

    We are also looking into Win4Lin, any expirences about that would also be apreciated.

    Thanks for every hint!

    1. Re:Internet Explorer with Flash5? by gabebear · · Score: 2, Interesting

      Flash is open source, you can download a nice C++ tar file that compiles on win32 and every linux I've tried. They have downloadable native players for Windows, Macintosh,Pocket PC, OS/2, Sun Solaris,Linux x86, andSGI IRIX. at
      http://www.macromedia.com/shockwave/download/alter nates/

      I must also wonder why people are down on flash? Don't confuse it with Shockwave(Macromedia's huge monster app), Flash movies are small, streaming and let you create almost anything without having all the overhead a virtual machine creates.

      If you want a free way of making them check out open source JGenerator( http://www.flashgap.com/ ) which even lets you dynamically create flash on your site. Oh and JGenerator runs on almost every OS too.

  5. Any way to filter everything but trolls? by IgD · · Score: 1, Interesting

    I don't like to read anything but the -1 posts. Does anyone else feel this way? Is there a way to filter everything but the -1 posts out?

  6. Re:Windows app installers by friedmud · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Try Transgaming's Winex - they rewrote all of MS's DCOM to do the Inter Process Communication Alexandre was talking about.

    Almost all of the installers run just fine - and from posts the development team made today, the current CVS version even supports CD-Swaping during installs.

    Life is getting much better on the linux desktop due to Transgaming. Just click the link in my sig to go to the signup page. You can afford $5 a month right?

    Derek