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Wine 0.9.44 Released

Posted by kdawson on from the in-old-bottles dept.

jshriverWVU writes to let us know about the release of Wine 0.9.44. Wine is a free implementation of Windows on Unix/Linux. New in this release are: better heuristics for making windows managed; automatic detection of timezone parameters; improvements to the built-in WordPad; better signatures support in crypt32; still more gdiplus functions; and of course lots of bug fixes.

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  1. WordPad? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    I'm sure there are some great new features, but mentioning improvements to WordPad is some serious flamebait...

    1. Re:WordPad? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

      vi vs. emacs vs. WordPad?

  2. Re:useful yet? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    Try getting it to run on Cygwin. That's lots of fun!

  3. Re:Wine 1.0? by alba7 · · Score: 5, Funny

    Imagine Duke Nukem Forever running under Wine 1.0 on GNU Hurd.

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  4. Re:Wine 1.0? by Circlotron · · Score: 3, Funny

    Wine 1.0 needs a working fusion reactor to operate it, hence it will always be 6 months away.

  5. Re:useful yet? by MadnessASAP · · Score: 4, Funny

    Ha! try getting it to run Cygwin and then using it to run Qemu to run Windows XP to VMware to run Linux. When you have completed that young grasshopper then your training is complete.

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  6. Finally! by MarkByers · · Score: 5, Funny

    improvements to the built-in WordPad

    That's been one thing that really bugs me about Linux. I'm fed up of having to use horrible outdated editors like emacs and vi. Now finally I can use a decent editor without having to dual-boot.

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  7. New wine project by edxwelch · · Score: 5, Funny

    I would love to use Wine, but unfortunately I don't have Linux. Are there any plans to port Wine to Windows?

    1. Re:New wine project by caluml · · Score: 3, Funny

      Download Cygwin and try and compile it under that. Windows -> Cygwin -> Wine -> ..... VMWare? :)

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  8. Re:Does it run on (Net||Open)BSD or Solaris yet? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    Neigh-sayers said OpenBSD would never crack the problems it had with Firefox or OpenOffice, or get native Java.

    But who cares what horses think?
  9. Re:Wine 1.0 would be a great mistake! by AJWM · · Score: 2, Funny

    I think it would be pointless to push such a product because it is simply not ready yet. Users would also have higher expectations of the product than what should be realistic

    You missed it. Think about it, this is a Windows (non-)emulator. Releasing a not quite ready for primetime version as 1.0 (or even 2.0) fits perfectly with providing the whole Windows experience.

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