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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. OT: Sig by TheVelvetFlamebait · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    "We have Ph.D.'s here, and we don't believe it's possible to protect digital content."-- Jobs on DRM

    What do you think prompted him to say that? Was it:

    a) Careful reasoning, soundly eliminating possibilities for protecting digital content, or
    b) because that's what his customer base wants him to think?

    --
    You know, there is a difference between trolling and pointing out the flaws in your reasoning. Just saying.