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Jeremy White on WINE Installer Challenge

Posted by timothy on from the assimilation dept.

polar_bear` writes "Last week, CodeWeavers issued a "Installer Challenge" to improve Wine "until it can run nearly every Windows program." Linux Magazine interviewed CodeWeavers Founder and CEO Jeremy White about the challenge, Wine on OS X on Intel, the Linux desktop and what is ahead for CodeWeavers. White has some pretty interesting answers."

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  1. A lot of this was covered in WWN by Mad+Merlin · · Score: 4, Informative

    If you're looking for more information about this, Wine Weekly News for last week has two writeups on the issue. Basically the last of some very ugly and gritty DCOM work and related items has been finished in Wine. Installers are notorious for using these sorts of features and hence have generally been hit or miss in the past. This is a big step forward for Wine, sometime in the near future the vast majority of installers should work properly (hence the challenge).

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  2. Re:hey.. is wine usable yet? by Lukey+Boy · · Score: 2, Informative

    I've been playing through Baldur's Gate 2 (and it's expansion) on my Pentium M 1Ghz laptop for a while using a CVS snapshot and no special configuration. Works well enough for me.

  3. Re:What about Linux Installation? by IamTheRealMike · · Score: 2, Informative

    It's more difficult because broken, out of date or non-exsistant Wine packages are very common. For instance, where is the Wine package in Fedora? Why did Debian release a update fixing a non-existant security bug in Wine? Why did the official Wine Red Hat packager have to rewrite the Gentoo ebuilds for them as they were so broken?