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Ask Jeremy White and Alexandre Julliard About the Future of WINE

Posted by timothy on from the don't-keep-those-puns-bottled-up dept.

Last week, after 15 years of development, tempered by the need for arduous reverse engineering, the WINE project released version 1.0. What "1.0" means for WINE is neither that the project is finished, nor that it is perfect, but rather that the software runs a small subset of specific freely downloadable Windows applications. That's not to say it doesn't run scads of others, too -- the apps database is proof that thousands of programs run to at least some degree. Here's your chance to ask WINE developer Jeremy White and WINE project lead Alexandre Julliard (both of Codeweavers) about the future of WINE, or any other questions about the project that cross your mind. The usual Slashdot interview rules apply; please ask as many questions as you'd like, but limit yourself to one question per post. We'll pass on the best questions to Jeremy and Alexandre for their answers.

3 of 346 comments (clear)

  1. Re:What's the biggest obstacle for wine? by erikharrison · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Is it perhaps excessive "use" of "quotation" marks?

  2. Re: Your Sig by spazdor · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    The IRS will be President?

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  3. x11drv port to Windows by Maexxus · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    Could someone pretty please work on porting x11drv to Windows? Or a way of converting GDI calls to X? I saw some discussion on this topic a few years ago on the mailing list. I run coLinux on a full screen X server, and I would really love to be able to run my Windows applications inside the X window manager.