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Wired Talks Wine

Posted by Hemos on Friday January 25, 2002 @07:30PM from the run-it-better-faster dept.

matroid writes "Wired reports that the upcoming WINE version 1.0 may be just what Linux needs to get users to migrate from Windows to Linux."

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Wine code names by icejai · 2002-01-25 20:15 · Score: 3, Funny

I think Wine should get with the times and follow suit in today's popular code-naming fad. eg. Whistler, Yamhill (what the heck!?), etc etc.

Friend says: "yo dude... I just installed Merlot 1.9 ... it's pretty sweet"
Other Guy: "yeah.... it's pretty sweet man... but I can't wait for Sauvignon Blanc comes out. I hear there's gonna be some big changes in that one"
Friend says: "sweet"
Other Guy: "yeah... super sweet"
niche by glwtta · 2002-01-25 20:17 · Score: 3, Funny

some degree of success in niche-server scenarios
What's the niche? Web servers?

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Re:What about Win4Lin?? by glwtta · 2002-01-25 20:21 · Score: 5, Funny

Except of course, that running Windows kinda defeats the point of not running Windows.

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Good Heavens by bnf · 2002-01-25 21:34 · Score: 2, Funny

"I was so happy that my kids could finally play games with me instead of on mom's Windows computer," White said.
This guy and his kids live with his mother? CEO's jut don't get bank no more.

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in theory... by nocent · 2002-01-26 04:20 · Score: 3, Funny

from the article:
WINE is, in theory, capable of running any application written for Windows 98/Me
To quote Homer Simpson:
Sure, in theeoory. In theory communism works... In theory.