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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. Re:How is this /.-worthy news? by QuantumG · · Score: 4, Insightful

    The fact that they have 5 major improvements every 14 days is kinda impressive.

    But yes, good point.

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  2. Re:Wine breaks backward compatibility a lot. by QuantumG · · Score: 3, Insightful

    So, err, just so I've got this right.. you're applying app specific patches to Wine to get it to work and then when you upgrade you're reapplying all those patches and finding that some of them don't apply anymore?

    Ya know, Wine uses this revision control system that some Finnish guy wrote.. it's really good at helping you maintain a fork with your changes in it if that's what you want to do. I think it's called "git" or something. :)

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  3. Re:How is this /.-worthy news? by robbak · · Score: 4, Insightful

    That is unsurprising. Windows installers have always been heavyweight. I don't think that this is wine's problem.
    Indeed, wine has had a very hard time supporting Installshield, which seems like a very badly written application.

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  4. Re:But face it by ozmanjusri · · Score: 5, Insightful
    the very existance of Wine is proof that Linux isn't able to exist without windows.

    ...and the very existence of SFU is proof that Windows isn't able to exist without Linux.

    So let's all have a big group hug and make up. We need each other.

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  5. Re:But face it by pakar · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Nope, but the existence of wine is proof that people don't like windows and want their apps running on gnu/linux systems..

  6. Re:New wine project by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

    do not laugh to soon..

    like dosbox, and I'm pretty sure that under Vista you *may* need wine to run some legacy windows softwares....

  7. Re:New wine project by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Not only that, but since MS isn't going to release DX10 on XP and Wine has already started implementing it, you might end up using Wine to run the new apps in a legacy OS.