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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. Wine64??? by brxndxn · · Score: 5, Funny

    How the hell are we supposed to know what that means?! I would've named it Beer.

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    1. Re:Wine64??? by Clay+Pigeon+-TPF-VS- · · Score: 4, Funny

      I think its fine calling it WINdows Emulator 64.

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    2. Re:Wine64??? by blincoln · · Score: 5, Funny

      How the hell are we supposed to know what that means?! I would've named it Beer.

      If WINE were a Microsoft product, this new 64-bit version would be called WINE32 in order to fit in with the revised Windows system-folder naming standard. The 32-bit version would be renamed to WINO64.

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    3. Re:Wine64??? by baka_toroi · · Score: 5, Funny

      i WIll Not get a jokE

    4. Re:Wine64??? by neo8750 · · Score: 5, Funny

      you must be new here...

    5. Re:Wine64??? by Yvan256 · · Score: 4, Funny

      Whoosh64

    6. Re:Wine64??? by Bill,+Shooter+of+Bul · · Score: 4, Funny

      Obviously, you've read the bottle before drinking one.

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  2. Does it run by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    ...Cygwin? Hah! Tricked you!

  3. Linux is first again... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    It looks as though Linux users will have native 64-bit Windows applications before most Windows users.

  4. Re:LUK by David+Gerard · · Score: 4, Funny

    Winux!

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  5. Re:Who really uses it though ? by Drinking+Bleach · · Score: 4, Funny

    IE6 runs, sure, but leaks memory like there's no tomorrow, so I have to kill -9 it after a few minutes lest I face a swap-spiral of doom.

    So it's just like Windows!

  6. Re:LUK by TheSlashaway · · Score: 5, Funny

    Whine!

  7. Re:LUK by sumdumass · · Score: 5, Funny

    I almost forgot about Gentoo. That's probably the best idea of all.

    Because of an almost masochistic love for a challenge. I think everyone should at least attempt to role their own kernel and desktop from scratch in an early Slackware type of way. But I think that is just me.