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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 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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      "...always new atoms but always doing the same dance, remembering what the dance was yesterday." -Richard Feynman
    2. Re:Wine64??? by baka_toroi · · Score: 5, Funny

      i WIll Not get a jokE

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

      you must be new here...

  2. 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.

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

    Whine!

  4. 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.