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Fun With Wine

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the on-a-boring-sunday-afternoon dept.

taviso writes "Ever wondered what would happen if you could compile and run cygwin under wine ? What about compiling wine under cygwin ? well these guys have, and are planning to nest the two environments as many times as possible to see if wine can take the strain, and not without good reason: 'Having such virtualization environments run within each other is an important milestone in the lives of these projects, it is a remarkable technical feat that requires a great deal of maturity'. "

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  1. will is run visual studio.net? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll
    it looks like the software of choice of slashdot, (i see their sponsorship everywhere here, they must love it).

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  2. Re:Cute title but... by Lazarus2k2001 · · Score: 0, Troll

    Was that suppose to be funny??

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  3. doubts about future of wine by vivek7006 · · Score: 0, Troll

    I have serious doubts about the future of wine. The wine project may have achieved many milestones, but Microsoft can snap it any time. All they need to do, is to change thier APIs and making them incompatible. And if it makes bussiness sense, believe me, they will.

  4. Idiot by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    What kind of idiot has time to sit around and do this.

    GET A LIFE !!!

  5. Re:Cute title but... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll


    It's better than "Fun With Wine".

  6. Re:Firt Post by BigWhale · · Score: 0, Troll

    Did anyone else detected a sudden drop of IQ?

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  7. Re:Wonderful. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll


    Do you actually have a job? And work in a company, that like, uses computers?

    Because you don't sound like you do.