Wine 1.2 Release Candidate Announced

Posted by timothy on Friday May 21, 2010 @02:41PM from the vintage-2010 dept.

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."

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Re:The Wrong Way by gzipped_tar · 2010-05-21 15:01 · Score: 5, Interesting

Native software is fine, but a compatibility layer won't hurt. In fact, WINE is great for running legacy, closed-source software whose development is long dead with no native build going to be made.

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Re:The Wrong Way by Ethanol-fueled · 2010-05-21 15:07 · Score: 5, Insightful

More aggresively -- WINE is one of the best ways for Linux to embrace, extend, and extinguish -- beat Redmond at their own game.

In fact, WINE is great for running legacy, closed-source software whose development is long dead with no native build going to be made.
Which is funny because one of the traditional perceived strengths of Windows is its backwards compatibility.