Wine 1.4 Released

Posted by Unknown on Wednesday March 7, 2012 @05:43AM from the windows-into-wine dept.

vinn writes "Wine 1.4 was released today and includes support for a wide range of applications, including Office 2010. There are some major architectural changes, including a built-in DIB engine for better graphics display and a new audio stack designed around the newer Vista / Win 7 system and integrated into the native audio system. Almost every other subsystem received substantial updates, including Direct3D, the Gecko-based web browsing components, and better internationalization. The release notes contain more detail and you can download the source code now, or wait for packages to appear soon."

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Sadly the Debian bins are still at rc3 by G3ckoG33k · 2012-03-07 05:48 · Score: 4, Insightful

Sadly the Debian bins are still at rc3 - http://www.winehq.org/download/debian
Still, thank you all for the fantastic project called Wine!
1. Re:Sadly the Debian bins are still at rc3 by CubicleZombie · 2012-03-07 06:25 · Score: 5, Insightful
  
  Indeed - although it has to be said that wine is particularly easy to build from source, even for ubunt^M^M not-so-savy tech users :-)
  I've been using Linux for 14 years, professionally for 12, and I now refuse to build anything from source. It was fun at the beginning, but now I need things to just work.
  
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  :wq