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Is Wine Destined to be a Specialist's Toolkit?

Posted by Cliff on from the seeking-one-executable-to-bind-them dept.

Bryan Porter asks: "I've been using various Wine based products lately (ex. WineX, CrossOver, etc.), and have found several companies basing portions of the software on Wine (I believe Virtuoso 3.0 utilizes Wine to some extent). My question for the Slashdot community is, is Wine destined for specialization only? We've got well-working versions of Wine hacked into a cross-platform gaming system, hacked into cross-platform productivity systems, etc. Will we ever download just one Wine, or is the best solution a customized one?"

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  1. Me too! by orthogonal · · Score: 3, Funny

    I've been using various Wine based products lately

    I''''ve been using wine bast pruducts too1 And don't tell me I got uh prublem, cause I don't, see.

    I kin handle it. So whayt if sometime I wake up onna sidewalk an don remember goin ta sleep? I kin sttop any time I wan.

    Hell, I didnt start drinkin cept to take up the time tween the blue screen od death anfd the three fingger salute.

    You wanna make sometin ov it? Alla shoqw you whooze boss1

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  2. Windows... by khanyisa · · Score: 5, Funny

    I've been using various Windows based products lately (ex. Windows 2000, Windows XP, etc), and have found several companies basing portions of the software on Windows (I believe Microsoft Office utilizes Windows to some extent). My question for the Slashdot community is, is Windows destined for specialization only? We've got well-working versions of Windows hacked into a gaming system, hacked into productivity systems, etc. Will we ever download just one Windows, or is the best solution a customized one?