WineConf 2004

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Posted by Hemos on Tuesday November 11, 2003 @06:48AM from the come-and-meet-your-friends dept.

Anonymous Coward writes "The WineConf conference has opened up. Everyone is welcome at the second semi regular conference of Wine enthusiasts. Come and gather with fellow Wine hackers to: * Discuss the future of Wine * Work on nasty glibc bugs * Attack installers in an install-o-thon * Relax in the beautiful winter weather of Minnesota, enjoying the St. Paul Winter Carnival (complete with Ice Palace!). * Marvel at how the weather promotes an amazing amount of hacking time. * Hoist a real glass of Wine with your compadres at the Mall of America. The conference is in the early stages of planning, so full details are not yet available. However, here are the details that are firm: Date Saturday, January 31st and Sunday, February 1st, 2004."

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Frost Piss!!`` by Anonymous Coward · 2003-11-11 06:50 · Score: 0

FP!
1. Re:Frost Piss!!`` by scumbucket · 2003-11-11 07:29 · Score: 0
  
  Would you like some cheese with that WINE? heh heh heh
  
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Kernel Traffic -- Keep up to date by Spoing · 2003-11-11 07:13 · Score: 2, Informative

Kernel Traffic covers 4 projects, including Wine.
If you want to keep up to date on the conference and other happenings, but don't have time to attend or even slog through the mailing list(s), this is a good place to go.
Over the past few days, each summary has been updated, so if you haven't visited here before, stop reading Slashdot and go there!
Linux Kernel
Wine
GNU Enterprise
KDE

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while in Minneapolis... by Anonymous Coward · 2003-11-11 07:33 · Score: 1, Informative

Do some Urban Exploring.

For those of you looking to go out and have fun here, stay away from mall of america bars, they suck. Unless you're into 35 year old women that are trying to still fit into their high school clothes from 1986. You think I'm kidding?

Block E downtown has some of the more interesting clubs. Infinity club on the first floor of the hotel, there's a cool bar on the 4th floor of the hotel, and there's another club on the 2nd floor of the entertainment complex that is supposed to be awesome, but I forgot the name. Le Meridien is the coolest hotel in town. If your employer is footing the bill, stay there.

People here are unfriendly. Expect to go through more effort than you would in other cities to meet people. Upscale, trendy places which are traditionally stuck up, seem to be the best place to meet people here. Going to shitty frat boy bars like Brother's is the worst thing you can do. Last I checked though, The Lone Tree was still pretty fun on the weekends.

Failing that, you can always pick up 15 year old prostitutes at the Fall of America. (was on a local channel, no link, sorry).
Oh Boy! by Ender+Ryan · 2003-11-11 07:33 · Score: 2, Funny

A whole conference dedicated to emulating an operating system I've been trying to get away from for 8 years, I'm there!
Hehe, sorry :)

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1. Re:Oh Boy! by Anonymous Coward · 2003-11-11 07:44 · Score: 0
  
  hey, WINE Is Not an Emulator!
2. Re:Oh Boy! by Anonymous Coward · 2003-11-11 10:55 · Score: 0
  
  yes it is. it emulates windows!
3. Re:Oh Boy! by Charion · 2003-11-12 11:00 · Score: 1
  
  That's quite true. I think people should be aiming at maybe just making OpenGL a little more mature, so it can outperform say DirectX 9 (I think that's what it's at now?) Then I think/hope companies will start creating more games for Linux, I know, if there were more games on the market for Linux, I would buy them for sure. Although, most 'geeks' I know, have given Linux a try, but gave up, due to the fact Linux has no gaming abilities, I haven't let that fail me yet, I won't, because I hope sooner or later, some companies will release games for Linux (I'd really like that to be sooner ^_^)
4. Re:Oh Boy! by Ender+Ryan · 2003-11-14 01:35 · Score: 1
  
  Well, there are quite a few games for Linux already, and Tux Games seems to be doing fairly well.
  Personally, I don't have enough time to play all the games on Linux I want to play, so...
  Great time to be a Linux user if you ask me :)
  
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Work on nasty glibc bugs? by cperciva · 2003-11-11 07:44 · Score: 2, Insightful

I don't understand this. I keep on hearing people complaining about glibc; yet for some reason, people keep on using it.

Why?

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1. Re:Work on nasty glibc bugs? by metamatic · 2003-11-11 09:57 · Score: 1
  
  You could ask the same about sendmail and BIND.
  
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2. Re:Work on nasty glibc bugs? by IamTheRealMike · 2003-11-11 11:32 · Score: 1
  
  Writing a C library is no trivial thing. Glibc is easily one of the best out there today, dumping it would be insane and besides, what else would we use? Not going to happen.
  In this case Wine was doing some seriously bad things with threading, poking internal structures and overriding the threading subsystem etc - when threading on Linux came up for an overhaul surprise surprise Wine broke. It's mostly fixed now, I think. The end result is a lot more sane and robust though.
3. Re:Work on nasty glibc bugs? by cperciva · 2003-11-11 11:41 · Score: 1
  
  what else would we use?
  
  How about libc?
  
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4. Re:Work on nasty glibc bugs? by DAldredge · 2003-11-11 13:36 · Score: 1
  
  Because if the Linux people start using it, then the BSD people will have to throw it all out and work on another verion.
  
  So goes the petty world that is BSD politics.
5. Re:Work on nasty glibc bugs? by Anonymous Coward · 2003-11-12 04:49 · Score: 0
  
  yet for some reason, people keep on using it.
  
  I don't
WineConf??? Bahhh! by MarkGriz · 2003-11-11 09:42 · Score: 1

I'm waiting for BeerConf

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I just hope ... by Dreadlord · 2003-11-11 10:48 · Score: 3, Funny

... they consider porting the project to Mircosoft Windows[TM], I can only use it under Linux right now.

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1. Re:I just hope ... by grotgrot · 2003-11-11 11:48 · Score: 1
  
  It has run on Cygwin for quite a while. Although it may sound silly, it helps improve Cygwin as well as Wine. (People have also tried running Cygwin under Wine).
2. Re:I just hope ... by gl4ss · 2003-11-11 13:05 · Score: 1
  
  you know what's funny? in a few years you even might want to do it because your older win32 programs refuse to work otherwise!
  
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Will it be an anonymous meeting? by orkysoft · 2003-11-12 11:22 · Score: 1

$FIRSTNAME: "Hello, I am $FIRSTNAME and I have an emulating problem."

Group: "Hello $FIRSTNAME!"

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