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Wine 1.0 — Uncorked After 15 Years

Posted by timothy on from the flows-freely dept.

pshuke writes "After 15 years of development, Wine version 1.0 has been released. Wine is an Open Source implementation of the Windows API on top of X, OpenGL, and Unix. While perfect windows compatibility has not yet been achieved, full support for Photoshop CS2, Excel Viewer 2003, Word Viewer 2003 and PowerPoint Viewer 2003 have been among the goals prior to the release. For further information about supported applications, head over to the appdb. Get it (source) while it's hot."

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  1. Re:I would really like to try this out by iampriteshdesai · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Wine is intended as a tool to use Windows software in other OS like Mac OSX and Linux. There is no need for XP to have Wine, since Wine is used to run softwares which run in XP

  2. Re:Next step is to ship this with Linux UMPCs by Tweenk · · Score: 0, Redundant

    And most of their legacy Windows malware too!

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  3. Re:FINALLY! by RiotingPacifist · · Score: 0, Redundant

    try wine

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  4. Oblig by Palshife · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Well I have nipples, mrsteveman1. Could you sue me?

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  5. Re:Office 2007 runs on Wine 1.0 too. by djdavetrouble · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Yes, we should stick with the toolbar paradigm regardless application complexity for all eternity.

    FINALLY! Someone who understands.

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  6. Re:Take it step by step by windsurfer619 · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Wine Is Not an Emulator.

  7. But... by Samah · · Score: 0, Redundant

    But will it run Linux?

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