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Wine Goes 64-Bit With Wine64

Posted by timothy on from the leathery-but-not-presumptuous dept.

G3ckoG33k writes "Wine (Wine Is Not an Emulator) is a popular way to run Windows programs on Linux, and it has an impressive compatibility list. After 15 years of development it reached version 1.0 a few months ago. Now, Wine developer Maarten Lankhorst has succeeded in running 'Hello World' in 64-bit, natively! The 64-bit variety is unexpectedly named Wine64."

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  1. Re:Wine64??? by Mr+Z · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Aren't jokes supposed to be funny?

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  2. Re:LUK by Draek · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    you know what would be really cool? a linux distro that focused *only* on wine, and windows programs.

    For what purpose? giving people a free-as-in-beer Windows? ThePirateBay already does it, and better.

    i mean the absolute minimum you could possibly have to get a usable wine session - no underlying desktop environment, no python, no perl, no bsh/zsh/csh, no headers, just the kernel, wine, and popular windows freeware like 7-zip, utorrent, ffdshow, media player classic, dvdshrink, firefox.. a complete replacement for windows that actually runs software that people want and are already familiar with.

    Complete? no it wouldn't, and you may want to rephrase your statement anyways because it sounds trollish as hell.

    no, i don't want to install a 4.5gb distro. i want linux without all the bloat from crap i'll never ever want nor need to run the windows programs i like, and not the painfully different and bizarrely bloated linux versions.

    If you only want to run Windows apps, pray tell, why in the FUCKING world do you want to run Linux? ohh, that's right, you're a cheap ass. Go pay for your own damn software, 'kay? ohhh and yes, you *are* a troll, your last statement is conclusive proof of that fact.

    how sad and hilarious, right now i use nothing but open source software on windows, and my footprint is MUCH less than linux to do the same. i tried to install the smallest linux distro i could and still get a usable wine session.. 1gb worth of software later i'm up to the point that xp can do with 250mb.

    Check the specs for the Playstation. Try to run ePSXe on a PC with double the specs in every area. Get a clue.

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