Wine 1.2 Released

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."

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Hehehe
The Church of /. You can be the last idiot - as long as you fail to your knees and renounce your sins (Windows especially) than you are welcome. Behold the one who left the OSS establishment. This oppinion is flamebait.
On the side, I also used to send reports to AppDB. At a point I discovered that I have wasted my time as with most OSS projects I have helped. Although I have software entered into the DB (both for the first time or new versions) some "volunteers" started deleting some entries for things like "printing not tested" in the case of PS.
Guys, realy, I used to feel your way of rating things is the norm, only to find out that the free software crowd is not only obtuze and rude, but also gone are the days when you can get an answer to your problem. It's either "in your face" like setting up the desktop wallpaper or nobody knows.
Went a couple of weeks ago and checked a few crowded places online - the open source groups/forums/whatever have by far the most unanswered issues. And the debated threads reach page 20+ and still have no solution. I witnesed the same with young or rarely used groups, but in the size range of say ubuntuforums ONLY members of your church can answer constantly with either something else or "read the docs" even after it's proven later on that there is nothing in the docs about that. But the mighty priest never bothered to check only increased his post count.
The fact that Wine 1.2 is somehow useful is not thanks to the OSS community or programmers. It's because Wine 1.2 can reach the equivalent of WinXP which is still alive and useful thanks to the community of XP users who pressed to prolong the life of this OS, thanks to the developers of closed source software who kept supporting it instead of migrating to Windows 7 which would be out of the league for Wine. Read the paragraph above: OSS comunity is ready to generate useless content and debate, turn in circles or let useful projects die and not really much else. With a few exceptions like Scribus or Inkscape useful projects become usable only after being integrated in the plans of some big corporation who pays real programmers to finish the product.