Wine 1.0 — Uncorked After 15 Years

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."

Comments

Re:Office 2007 runs on Wine 1.0 too.

[Spy der Mann]

Sad to say, but probably because

7.0.0 CrossOver Linux - June 17, 2008

        * New application support:

                o Office 2007 (Including Word, Excel, Powerpoint, and limited Outlook) I'll still be buying a copy though. I can only say one thing regarding Crossover:

Greedy bastards.

Re:I would really like to try this out

[rtechie]

RDP is also encrypted, and has real authentication methods.

X is the worst way imaginable to do graphics (a giant frame buffer). It's good for terminal servers and terrible for everything else.