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Wine 1.0-rc2 Released

Posted by kdawson on from the very-good-year dept.

An anonymous reader writes notes the availability of Wine 1.0-rc2. Binaries for major distros are up now.

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  1. Astounding... by Shadow+of+Eternity · · Score: 5, Funny

    Kdawson appears to finally have posted something that is news, for nerds, and matters. I wonder who stole his password.

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    1. Re:Astounding... by Mad+Merlin · · Score: 4, Insightful

      Are you serious? A release candidate for a random open source project is released, and that's news you care about?

      Perhaps if you were paying attention, you'd know that Wine 1.0 has been 15 years in the making. Furthermore, Wine is hardly "a random open source project", Wine reaching 1.0 is a very significant milestone.

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  2. Re:Sweet! by Derek+Loev · · Score: 5, Funny

    Disappointment in 5...4...3...2...1.

  3. really getting good by oever · · Score: 3, Informative

    Even though using Wine for apps remains a hit and miss, I've had some very good experiences working with it. At work, I'm developing a closed source Delphi application. Even though the full Delphi 2007 development environment does not run in Wine, I can run the compiler and the resulting application which is very complex (lots of COM and OpenGL) runs for 95% in Wine. It's good to know that we can get this working if customers start asking for it.

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  4. If you want to help: by Daimanta · · Score: 5, Informative

    If you have a Windows installation

    Go to this page : http://test.winehq.org/data/3c1c6172779510a7ed693d922fb3061948999ea1/

    Click on the big alphanumerical hyperlink and download the exe.

    Give an alias and run it.

    This will do conformance tests on your computer and it is very important to the wine project.

    Don't try to do anything usefull while testing since it will do a wide range of things including directX tests which will make your screen display colorfields.

    If you get errors or crashes, just click on OK or close. This is part of the testing. I'm sure the people working on the wine project will be very happy with it.

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    1. Re:If you want to help: by JoshJ · · Score: 3, Informative

      Posting here so I can find the link in my profile when I boot into windows. Please disregard.

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    2. Re:If you want to help: by hansraj · · Score: 4, Funny

      OK.

    3. Re:If you want to help: by mentaldrano · · Score: 5, Funny

      If you have a Windows installation This is /. - almost everyone here runs Windows while secretly pretending to be a Linux guru.

      The people who do run Linux pretend to run *BSD, to maintain their elite status.

      No one actually runs *BSD except Theo de Raadt (he actually runs NetBSD, OpenBSD is a hoax) ~
    4. Re:If you want to help: by jeremy_white · · Score: 5, Interesting
      If you have a Linux installation, then you can help with this:
      http://wiki.winehq.org/MakeTestFailures
      and
      http://wiki.winehq.org/ConformanceTests

      For those wondering where the latest data is: in http://test.winehq.org, click on the "Last Modified" column twice, that will bring the latest data to the top.

      Thanks to everyone who submitted data so far! We have enough reports for XP now, but any other version of Windows would be handy.

      Be sure to run this again when wine-1.0-rc3 comes out next week.

      Cheers,

      Jeremy

  5. Catch 22 situation by dr.Flake · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Unfortunately,
    If you look at the AppDb you'll see a lot of apps still not working 100%. F.i. Graphpad prism disappointed me last week. Most of them don't work because of some minor glitz. Before you say, well fix it you stupid, repairing them would introduce new regressions.

    I think its mostly because of some "hacks" used by lazy/clever/performance programmer, but therefore very intolerant to a "windows-like" environment.

    I hope Wine will get to the point, where it's influence will force programmers to stick to the specifications, as his/her boss is asking:" but will it also run under Wine???".

    Ps. I hope the number of RC's will remain below 40.

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    1. Re:Catch 22 situation by SanityInAnarchy · · Score: 3, Insightful

      I think its mostly because of some "hacks" used by lazy/clever/performance programmer, but therefore very intolerant to a "windows-like" environment. Do you have anything to back this up?

      Because Windows itself is incredibly hackish, especially when it comes to backwards compatibility. If Wine was simply striving to be a good Win32 implementation, they'd be pretty much done already -- someone developing an app, from the ground up, to be able to run on Windows and Wine shouldn't have too much more trouble than someone designing a web app, from the ground up, to run in IE and Firefox.

      But Wine strives for bug-for-bug compatibility. There are a lot of bugs in Windows, and a lot of apps depend on those bugs.

      I hope Wine will get to the point, where it's influence will force programmers to stick to the specifications, as his/her boss is asking:" but will it also run under Wine???". That assumes something else -- that Windows sticks to the specs. On top of all of the above, Windows doesn't stick to the specs.
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  6. Microsoft Office 2003 bug fix by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    Bug fix 13343: Microsoft Office 2003 won't install Great! Finally, I can install Wine without worrying about accidentally installing Office 2003.

    Thanks, guys! Great work!