Jeremy White on WINE Installer Challenge

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."

Comments

Re:hey.. is wine usable yet?

[Mad Merlin]

I doubt you're serious, but to those reading this, Wine is quite fast regardless of whether or not you consider it an emulator or not (it is not). It isn't subject to the same kind of performance hit that an emulator like QEmu/VMWare/VirtualPC faces because Wine does not emulate hardware. I can for example play Diablo II under Wine at roughly 90% native speed, some applications are faster than this, some aren't quite as fast. Here's a few benchmarks if you don't believe me.

There are plenty of people who play new games like World of Warcraft and Half Life 2 under Wine without speed issues, so I'm not sure exactly where your claims are coming from.

Re:hey.. is wine usable yet?

[someguy456]

because Valknut still kinda sucks) I hear this on hubs all the time. Just out of curiousity, what's wrong with Valknut? I haven't gotten a straight answer from anybody yet, other than the fact that its interface is not like DC++'s. I've gotten really comfortable with it and have worked out the little kinks, and I must say, I absolutely love it. I've booted into Windows once in a while and revved up DC++, and I can't find anything so great about it. Sure, the interface is different. but I'd go as far as saying that Valknut might even be more functional.

Re:What about Linux Installation?

[IamTheRealMike]

You know, that's one of the key selling points of CrossOver - it comes in a Loki setup. Why no autopackage? Well, I guess Mike is just a slacker ;)