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Wine 1.6 Released With 10,000 Changes

Posted by timothy on from the drink-up-pilgrim dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Wine 1.6 has been released for running Windows applications on Linux and OS X. Wine 1.6 ships with 10,000 changes in the past year and has many new user features like a Mac graphics driver, Direct3D improvements, and 64-bit ARM support."

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  1. 64-bit arm support? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll
    So, is that to run all those 64-bit ARM Windows binaries, recompiling, or is it now an emulator?

    Yeah, too lazy to read the article. Piss off.

  2. But the question remains... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Troll

    Does it run Linux?

  3. Parent poster is a faget by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    R u ghey, brah? Do u even lift?

  4. Re:My review by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    I find your review to be flawed. You did not mention its fine bouquet of dog farts and rotten apples, or the way the aftertaste causes you to retch up your morning breakfast.

  5. Re:That is the question... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Stupid, over-played meme is stupid. ...and over-played.

  6. linux on the desktop is dead by Vince6791 · · Score: -1, Troll

    It's okay for light desktop users who don't care about window based software. Tried installing wine 1.6 on mint 15, ./tools/wineinstall, it failed kept asking for root privileges which I gave(sudo), and then it told me i can't run it as root. Then tried to ./configure --enable-wine64 which I got other errors so I just gave up. I wasted 30 minutes looking on the net for a fix but I just gave up. 32-bit version did not work either. I also tried the aptonCD to create a new iso which included 10 software installed on mint, it froze near the end. relinux does work.
    I still don't like that linux software is in packages(dependency hell) and not a full install like .msi or .exe. If my internet goes bye bye and I'm redoing my machine I would be screwed, but with windows I have all my applications and drivers in .msi's and .exe's on HD storage and dvd's.

    Every time I use linux it feels like I'm just wasting precious time, it's more of a toy than a professional desktop OS like windows xp/7 and even windows 8. Linux on the desktop died(brain dead) a long time ago and people just forgot to remove the life support.