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Winex 3.0 Released

Posted by michael on from the getting-my-hopes-up dept.

syntaxman writes "You'll find the information thread here, or see the release notes. The pre-packaged files (rpms,debs,tarballs) are available only for subscribers."

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  1. good or bad? by fine09 · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I am so close to switching over to linux, since the work that I do is mostly java programming and web design. Just the fact that I really like to play a couple games now and again.

    I am just wondering if we will ever get the performance we get with games under windows. I know that they have a couple games ported, but in games like FPS where framerates are so important. I think that if Wine can perform in this area, we would see a lot more conversions to linux. Games sell computers, think of the first application that you baught, I know I didn't buy a word processor first(Links386 to be exact).

    Now flame me if i am wrong, but doesn't wine work on some sort of Virtual Machine, thus adding an extra layer between the hardware and the code?

    1. Re:good or bad? by Surak · · Score: 3, Interesting

      I am so close to switching over to linux, since the work that I do is mostly java programming and web design. Just the fact that I really like to play a couple games now and again.

      I have one machine for development, one for games, and one for CAD. The problem is that the ideal machine for games is not necessarily the ideal machine for development or CAD. With 3D CAD software and animation and such, I need graphics cards with more capabilities than your average ATI Radeon or nVIDIA GeForce. But games don't run well on cards designed for the CAD market. And for development, I want all the tools I love to use, and many of them either suck on Windows or don't have Win32 ports at all (Quanta+ comes to mind as one that doesn't have a Win32 port). Plus I'm working on a few Linux-specific projects, in addition to the PHP stuff I'm working on.

      So my suggestion: one machine for development, another for games. Surak's rule of hardware: Hardware is cheap.

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  2. In related news by guacamole · · Score: 4, Interesting

    .. the Wine package for some reason has been removed from the RedHat Linux 9 distribution according to release notes..

  3. Nothing happened to OS/2 by HanzoSan · · Score: 4, Interesting



    OS/2 only lost because they didnt try. I didnt see a single OS/2 on any computer except for maybe IBMs computers and eventually IBM even took it off their own computers.

    So if OS/2 did bad it was because of IBM, I had wanted to get OS/2 Warp and an IBM but the cost was ridiculous, this is why I never purchased it and its the same reason I never owned a mac.

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  4. Re:A full DirectX Win32 wrapper? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Interesting

    WineX tackles the chicken and egg problem linux has been experiencing, if you cant grasp that...dont use it..stick with your few ported games.

  5. winex no substitute for windows by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Gaming is a single-tasking app. While Windows supports every Windows game by definition, winex will by definition always be playing catchup. I have no need to integrate Windows games with a Linux desktop, so I might as well reboot into a Windows partition.

  6. Re:A full DirectX Win32 wrapper? by cdemon6 · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Think about that again - let software developers the freedom to choose to add a linux port wheter they need one or not!

    If we have binary emulation of windows apps more people will use linux, and if more people use linux more companies will port their product to native linux. but for the user winex is a really good thing, some companies just can't spend money on a linux port for this few thousand sales atm.

  7. Native ports wont happen until by HanzoSan · · Score: 4, Interesting


    Theres enough Windows users to buy those Native ports using linux.

    How do you attract Windows users? With games. You have to start somewhere, you need a market of gamers before you can sell games. Heres how it can work, use WineX to bring tons of new games, get maybe a million gamers to switch to Linux.

    Now you have a million linux gamers, little independent Linux development companies can sell games, let the big companies sit on the fence while the little linux companies make plenty of money selling games, and suddenly the big companies will see how much money they could be making and start to port.

    This is the only way, you need games to attract gamers, and you need gamers to attract games. So bring games, increased gamers = increased games.

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