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Wine 0.9.44 Released
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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Yes, it has gotten way better.
It has support for Direct3D, tons of winapi functions, etc... It's pretty awesome at this stage, really.
Wine isn't an app.
What are you running under Wine when this happens?
Have you filed a bug report?
How we know is more important than what we know.
I find it is pretty good at what it runs. The problem is that for me, the kind of things it runs are the things that I can get on Linux natively anyway.
The things it falls short on are things like the latest office products, latest adobe products and some of the games I like to play. It's helpful in places but does not yet close the gap for me.
Because parts of Wordpad are often used as a text editing component in other programs. In addition, Wordpad acts as a good test case for much of wine's infrastructure.
Prediction for end of Universe #42: Fencepost error in Quantum_bogosort.cpp
Cedega is based of an old version of Wine, which was forked off and made proprietary. Since then, Wine changed it's license to make it impossible to do another Cedega-style fork.
So, to merge, we would have to either convince transgaming to make their code completely free and LGPL, or convince all Wine authors to make their code non-free and a part of transgamings commercial product. I don't think either of those two alternatives are very likely.
To be fair, Wine does suffer quite a lot from regressions. Don't take my word for it - look up a few of your favourite games on the AppDB and notice how the playability level varies from one release to the next.
That's not so likely to be a problem with the major apps. World of Warcraft and MS Office are likely to be rested between releases, so they tend to be fairly stable. On the other hand, it's pretty much a crap-shoot whether Deus Ex (my favourite use for Wine) will work with any particular release.
Don't get me wrong; I think Wine is a fantastic project, and the number of apps they can handle has risen steadily over the time I've been using it. But being realistic, the do have a problem with regressions. Once it gets out of beta, that will hopefully change.
Don't let THEM immanentize the Eschaton!
It doesn't run on OpenBSD yet (I'm not sure about NetBSD or Solaris). OpenBSD porters continue to look at it, but it still has problems that are not easily solved (i.e. not a trivial port) and so they record their progress and move on to something more tractable. It will happen though. Neigh-sayers said OpenBSD would never crack the problems it had with Firefox or OpenOffice, or get native Java. It now has all of these, they are stable, and all up to date. In the meantime QEMU will run windows many Windows apps at a vaguely usable speed on OpenBSD ... just don't expect games or multimedia on Windows unless you dual-boot.
http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group _id=6241&package_id=112520
have fun ;-)
Better yet:
No need. Since wine got LGPL'd, it has gone through a deep redesign around the WinNT model instead of the win9x model. Also, when wine was just LGPL'd, it would need tons of DLLs from windows in order to do anything; nowadays, no windows DLLs are needed anymore, since almost everything has been implemented.
:).
Cedega used to have an advantadge on games since Wine held on Direct3d while waiting for Cedega to release its implementation; it never happened. So Wine's Direct3d began late, but it's catching up.
Nowadays, Wine and Cedega are quite close in game compatibility, while wine is much better with non-gaming stuff. Cedega's "work it around so that the game works instead of properly implementing it" is reaching its limits, and wine will soon run Cedega's "supported games" better than Cedega itself, not to menction non-Cedega supported games