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."

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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.