Wine Now Really Does Windows

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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This could really be a boon to IT and any business still shackled to Windows.

Once the Wine hackers have developed drop-in replacements for all of the Windows components, we will essentially have a Windows clone. Then we can start focussing on added functionality.

Has anyone considered merging the Linux and Wine codebases to create a Windows clone? It could be called Windux. The mascot could be Tux's cousin Dux (a duck).