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Interview - Jim White of the Darwine project

Posted by Hemos on from the bettering-the-platform dept.

Kelly McNeill writes "The Darwine project intends to port and develop Wine as well as other supporting tools that will allow Darwin and Mac OS X users to run Windows Applications. It is an open source project led by a growing number of developers including Emmanuel Maillard, Pierre d'Herbemont and Sanjay Connare. osOpinion/osViews had the privilege to speak to with the project's administrator, (Jim White) to tell us more about Darwine and where the project is headed. For those that don't know, Darwine is Wine (Wine Is Not an Emulator) for OS X on PPC. The following is the transcribed dialog of their conversation which is also available in an audible format on osRadio.com."

11 of 233 comments (clear)

  1. Re:Get these out of the way right off the bat by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Funny

    in soviet russia, windows emulates you!

  2. Wonderful... by transient · · Score: 4, Funny

    Just what I needed, a way to run crappy Windows apps on OS X!

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  3. You can have it both ways! by baywulf · · Score: 1, Funny

    WINE = Wine Is Not an Emulator = Windows Emulator

  4. Re:Is there really a need? by LiquidCoooled · · Score: 5, Funny

    Gator, Mydoom, Welchia, CWS, Sobig, Nimda.

    Did I miss any out ;)

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  5. Re:Confused.... by ShadeARG · · Score: 4, Funny

    Hmm.. WINE Is Now an Emulator? It still works.

  6. Yum by lukewarmfusion · · Score: 4, Funny

    Did that say Port Wine?

    Maybe I need to cut back on the Monday morning drinking.

  7. Re:Confused.... by arose · · Score: 3, Funny

    Yes it does, but it's slower. :-D

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  8. Re:Huh? by bgarcia · · Score: 4, Funny
    Do you realize that in less time than it took for you to write your questions, you could have clicked the link...
    Welcome to slashdot! Enjoy your stay.
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  9. No problem, I got ya covered by Damek · · Score: 2, Funny

    So the WINE in DarWINE can't stand for "Wine Is Not an Emulator" because, well, it sorta is? No problem - just change what the letters stand for! I suggest:

    Wine Isn't Not an Emulator
    Wine Is Now an Emulator
    Wine on os x Is doing some New things, possibly including a bit of Emulation

  10. cathedral vs Bizarre by wembley · · Score: 2, Funny

    That's really the whole cathedral vs Bizarre issue. 'Gee, should there only be one true way of getting things done?

    I, for one, will always take the Bizarre approach.

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  11. But what about security ? by ultranova · · Score: 2, Funny

    The Darwine project intends to port and develop Wine as well as other supporting tools that will allow Darwin and Mac OS X users to run Windows Applications.

    So, does this qualify as a security hole ?

    After all, if this works well, then Mac users will get to enjoy all the Windows security holes...

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