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Apps That Officially Support Wine

Posted by kdawson on from the insert-alcohol-related-line-here dept.

David Gerard writes "Wine (the Windows not-an-emulator for Unix) runs Windows applications more often than not. (Certainly more often than Vista does.) Dan Kegel on the wine-users mailing list/forum has started gathering apps that declare Wine a supported platform. And there's now a Wine Support Honor Roll page on the Wine wiki. We need more apps that work with Wine stating that they consider it a supported platform. If you write Win32 open source or shareware, please open yourself to the wider market!"

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  1. Re:Windows troubles me... by Techman83 · · Score: 0, Troll

    ...because it's always a work in progress. We in the Microsft world appear to always be "chasing" a prize that can never be caught.

    Fixed that for you...

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    Damn, my RAM is full of cats. MEOW!!
  2. Re:Question by Jamie's+Nightmare · · Score: 0, Troll

    Developers who find actual numbers, instead of pulling them out of their ass.

    It's actually your head that needs to be pulled out of your own ass. That's a harsh way of saying that you don't really have an accurate picture yourself. Why? Because those like yourself who are embedded in the subculture that is Linux do not have an accurate picture of the entire computer ecosystem.

    Take Slashdot for instance, where anyone can say anything "Pro-Linux" or "Anti-Windows", truthful or not, and it will be given high praise and kudos. People such as yourself feed off this garbage and form a grossly distorted picture of just how many other people out there think the same way you do.

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  3. yeah all 16 of them by timmarhy · · Score: 0, Troll
    yes i'm really impressed, 16 apps i've never heard of with the exception of utorrent. As for wine being more compatible with windows apps than vista, really such stupidity only hurts the OSS movement, why keep making them?

    instead of behaving like spoilt brats, i'd be trying my hardest to find a way to get official support from MS. beg, grovel, change licenses (within reason). if wine really did open your products to new markets it shouldn't be too hard to convince MS to support you, after all new markets mean $.

    i suspect wine is nothing more than a toy though, i'd be very interested in seeing a setup which uses it commercially.

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  4. Wine runs win apps? by AuxLV · · Score: 0, Troll

    >> Wine (the Windows not-an-emulator for Unix) runs Windows applications more often than not. (Certainly more often than Vista does.) Hahaha! If Wine was capable running more software then Vista does then everyone already moved to it! Guys, Wine can not run even simple audio player called XMPlay which runs on any Windows implementation from Microsoft just fine!