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Wine 1.2 Release Candidate Announced
An anonymous reader writes "After evolving over 15 years to get to 1.0, a mere 2 years later and Wine 1.2 is just about here. There have been many many improvements and plenty of new features added. Listing just a few (doing no justice to the complete change set):
many new toolbar icons; support for alpha blending in image lists; much more complete shader assembler; support for Arabic font shaping and joining, and a number of fixes for video rendering; font anti-aliasing configuration through fontconfig; and improved handling of desktop link files. Win64 support is the milestone that marks this release. Please test your favorite applications for problems and regressions and let the Wine team know so fixes can be made before the final release. Find the release candidate here."
Do we need to explain to you how a hyperlink works too? hint: it's the first one in the summary.
How we know is more important than what we know.
WTF? Linux extinguishing something? Beating Redmond at it's own game? What game might that be? The last one is the best of all: the comment isn't talking about new Windows builds, it's talking about Linux builds that aren't gonna happen. It ALREADY works on Windows. *head explodes from ridiculous comment*
I already told you, dumbass - embracing, extending, and extinguishing!
Yes, it works on Windows. So do a million viruses and a browser that gives your credit card numbers to every link you click on! So wouldn't it make sense to run the legacy stuff, the stuff your cowardly inept employer wont give up, on a system that dosen't become chock full of shitware within an hour in the hands of the average office monkey? Wouldn't that be neat?
Sheesh! What is wrong with you, man? I'm surprised your mother didn't flush your fetal body down the toilet or stuff it in a potato sack with chloroform and drown it in the bathtub!