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Wine Now Really Does Windows

Posted by timothy on from the partly-partly dept.

FeeDBaCK writes: "As many of you may not know, Wine is currently being ported to Mingw for the ReactOS project. An update to the status of some of the Wine native Dlls under Windows was posted to the wine-devel mailing list. What this means is that there are now some Wine Dlls, which contain no Microsoft code, that appear to be interchangeable with the official Microsoft Dlls with no apparent loss in functionality. These Dlls include imagehlp.dll and riched32.dll. This comes as a great win for Wine, and brings them one step closer to bringing Windows applications to Linux." There's still a list of not-yet-functioning ones, but this is nice news.

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  1. Windows DLLs by Guspaz · · Score: 2, Insightful

    For those of us who own Windows, it's easier to just use the Windows DLLs with Wine. They're more compatible. I mean, most people have an old copy of Win95 or Win98 lying around, right? Regards, Guspaz.

    1. Re:Windows DLLs by aridhol · · Score: 3, Insightful

      That may be true today for your average home user. What about when a business gets, say, 10 computers, and don't get the Windows licenses to go with them? Sure, they could use the DLLs from their licensed computers, until the Microsoft Police come and bust them for using 10 illegal copies of the Windows DLLs.

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  2. Re:awesome by yasth · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Ummm ever heard of lindows?

    A fully drop in replacement would not be as earth shattering as you would think, as companies would be hesitant to more or less throw thier support agreements out the window. Imagined Tech Support Call:

    Tech: Now go to Control Panels,
    User: I don't have a Control Panels
    Tech: you don't??? It is under the start menu.
    User: I don't have a start menu I have a foot menu.
    Tech: (Quickly) Current Company policy is not to support linux. Goodbye.

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  3. NT by linuxator · · Score: 2, Insightful

    As i remember, ReactOS is stil based on NT architecture... And as this architecture becomes obsolete in few years, well it will happen in about time ReactOS gets stable and full featured.

    Anyhow, Reactos rules for their concept, but is staying far behind Big Brother..

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