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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.
What ever happened to the impending release of Wine 1.0? I seem to remember it was coming very soon 6 months ago. It would be a great publicity boost for the software if it reached that point.
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Yes.
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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 releases every 14 days, see http://winehq.org/ Are we now going to see these kinds of news on /. every time there's a trivial update? I can think of a couple of apps and releases that are a little more important...
I'm sure there are some great new features, but mentioning improvements to WordPad is some serious flamebait...
Try getting it to run on Cygwin. That's lots of fun!
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.
I've been thinking of starting to ./configure --prefix a Wine install into a subdirectory of my home directory and applying a script wrapper to the wine binary.
Pretty much every application or game I use under Wine requires either a patch against wine or some app specific hack to get it working properly, and often they don't work in the next Wine version.
Wine is great but setting up multiple apps or games to work under it is horrible.
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.
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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.
I may agree with what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to face the consequences of saying it.
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.
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.
I'll probably be modded down for this...
So let's all have a big group hug and make up. We need each other.
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Nope, but the existence of wine is proof that people don't like windows and want their apps running on gnu/linux systems..
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.
I would love to use Wine, but unfortunately I don't have Linux. Are there any plans to port Wine to Windows?
At least at the moment. It would be like marking a half-built car (WARNING! car-analogy) as ready for use. 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. That said, Wine has come a long way. Playing opengl games works great. The same can't be said for directx. Some installers does not function at all. And there is a lot of other issues as well. Wine 9.64 seems more realistic than wine 1.0 at the moment.
Better yet:
But who cares what horses think?
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
> the very existance (sp) of Wine is proof that Linux isn't able to exist without windows.
Uh-huh. Offering an option proves that everybody needs that option. (Just for the record, I haven't had Wine installed since '01, and haven't used Windows since '98.)
Does the very existence of Viper mode prove that Emacs isn't able to exist without vi? Makes about as much sense.
Actually, what the existence of Wine proves is that some FLOSS developers are willing to try to provide a smoother migration path to those who are interested in exploring their options, but don't want to make a blind leap into the unknown.