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New Transgaming WineX Release

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the gimme-games-dammit dept.

Thunderbird writes "Transgaming released a new version of WineX. Winex allows you to run x86 windows games and programs on x86 Linux. It includes allmost full directx support (up to 7 including direct3d). " I'm still skeptical of their business model, but I subscribed anyway in the hopes that The Sims and its expansion packs will work soon. They look legit, although I only own 2 windows program (The Sims, Diablo 2, and their expansion packs) so I don't have much to test it on.

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  1. Re:Perils of the BSD-style licence of WINE? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Troll

    I'm so sick and tired of people whining about the BSD license.

    If everything used the GPL, all the software in the world would suck as badly as the GPL'd crap on freshmeat.

    The only two GPL'd programs that are worth downloading are GCC and The Gimp, and neither of them are revolutionary. They're merely acceptable substitutes for commercial programs that are much better. One could argue for KDE and Mozilla, too, I suppose.

    The GPL would have languished in obscurity if it hadn't been for the Linux kernel, and it's time that RMS faced that fact. From now on, it's the Linux/GPL!