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No WINE Before Its Time

Posted by Zonk on from the uncork-that-sucker dept.

Joe Barr writes "Stephen Feller has a story about WINE on NewsForge this morning ahead of next week's expected Beta release. The WINE project is 12 years old, so it's just about time." From the article: "'Wine has historically had a very frustrating history because it has been alpha software,' White said. 'This is really hard work. We're replicating the work of a billion-dollar company. The reason we're saying it's alpha is because we believe we still have fundamental changes to make on the way the internals work.' Noting that it has not always been easy to install software with Wine's alpha releases over the last decade, White said that once you got something working it has never meant it would continue to do so, or do so properly. There may have been display glitches or things not functioning properly, if a program even worked with Wine at all." OSTG is the parent company of both Slashdot and NewsForge.

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  1. Great Wine Quote by xactuary · · Score: 5, Funny
    The post reminded me of an old wine quote which I've used quite often... Just take a sip and say, "A naive domestic with little breeding, but I'm amused by its presumption."

    Cheers.

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  2. Yes but.. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    Does it run linux?

  3. Moonbase Alpha by fm6 · · Score: 4, Funny
    The reason we're saying it's alpha is because we believe we still have fundamental changes to make on the way the internals work.
    Microsoft seems to have the same problem.
  4. Re:vista by smittyoneeach · · Score: 4, Funny

    Category 5 hurricane

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  5. Good clone by Baramin · · Score: 5, Funny
    White said that once you got something working it has never meant it would continue to do so, or do so properly. There may have been display glitches or things not functioning properly, if a program even worked with Wine at all.


    That's what I get from WinXP on a regular basis, so I guess I could stand using Wine.
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  6. Re:Wine for OSX by timeOday · · Score: 4, Funny
    I'm not sure it's such a good fit:

    Mac: It Just Works.

    Wine: Whoah, something almost worked!

  7. Re:Is it just me? by ebuck · · Score: 2, Funny

    Just imagine, and Digital kept pushing their Alpha CPUs on everyone. The didn't even make it to Beta, and it's no wonder that HP scrapped thier remains.

    Or, you could perhaps look at the software to see if it meets your needs, and not get so excited about the release name / revision. Considering that there are not a lot of ways to make Windows executables run on Linux, even a pre-that-thing-before-alpha sounds better than nothing at all.

    And no, virtual machines running windows isn't the same thing as running a windows exe on Linux, but those who's needs are met by such workarounds are not those who drive the Wine project anyway.

  8. Wine? by Geoffreyerffoeg · · Score: 2, Funny

    The WINE project is 12 years old, so it's just about time.

    In other words...it aged for 12 years?

  9. Re:Wine for OSX by Burz · · Score: 2, Funny

    Wow, It Nearly Executed!