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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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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.