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First Release Candidate of Wine 1.0 Released

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the come-a-long-ways dept.

moronikos writes to mention that the first release candidate of Wine 1.0 was announced and released into the wild today. This new version includes only bug fixes as the team is in a code freeze while pushing for the full 1.0 release.

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  1. Wait, What?! by aitikin · · Score: 5, Interesting

    I was always under the impression that WINE, based on how it is designed, would never be finished, or even close to a finished release point. I mean, yeah, I know 1.0 doesn't mean it's done, just that it hit a specific milestone, but even so, WINE, being considered a ⥠1.0 version seems to me like it shouldn't happen until it can at least come close to running most everything thrown at it.

    Just my non-developer, non-programer, former WINE-user $.02.

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  2. Wine - an unmitigated SUCCESS! by blind+biker · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Just look at the list of applications supported by Wine and you'll understand why I say that. Basically, if I can run Civ IV, Heroes IV and other strategy games on Linux, and with Matlab having a Linux version, there's very little to justify my using Windows. OK, there's Fruityloops, but that's it!

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  3. Re:Hooray! Long live Wine 1.0! by slimjim8094 · · Score: 4, Interesting

    That's called winegcc, I think. Basically you code your apps to work on Wine and compile it to a native application using that.

    Either Google Earth or Picasa (or both) do that.

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  4. Cygwine? by tepples · · Score: 5, Interesting

    but you can run cygwin to get a linux-like environment ;) Some people have used Wine and Cygwin as test cases for each other.