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Wine 1.2 Released

Posted by Soulskill on from the pop-the-cork dept.

David Gerard writes "Stuck with that one Windows app you can't get rid of? Rejoice — Wine 1.2 is officially released! Apart from running pretty much any Windows application on Unix better than 1.0 (from 2008), major new features include 64-bit support, bi-directional text, and translation into thirty languages. And, of course, DirectX 9 is well-supported and DirectX 10 is getting better. Packages should hit the distros over the weekend, or you can get the source now."

5 of 427 comments (clear)

  1. Re:Every windows application by KDEnut · · Score: 3, Informative

    That's what wineprefix is for.

    Well, that and copious amounts of prayer.

  2. Re:Hmmmm. by Batty0ne · · Score: 5, Informative

    It's happening. You can actually somewhat use wine on windows. http://wiki.winehq.org/WineOnWindows

  3. Re:Every windows application by h4rr4r · · Score: 3, Informative

    buy crossover. That is why they sell it.

  4. Re:Any success stories with Wine by Dunbal · · Score: 3, Informative

    AFAIK Wine and Cedega are still ahead of virtual machines in terms of graphics drivers and gaming. Wine is far from dead.

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  5. Re:StarCraft by Randle_Revar · · Score: 4, Informative

    I saw recently that a fix went in to make shadows work correctly in SC2. I guess that probably means it works ok.

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