Wine 1.6 Released With 10,000 Changes

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Wine 1.6 Released With 10,000 Changes

Posted by timothy on Thursday July 18, 2013 @07:01AM 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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My review by jones_supa · 2013-07-18 07:06 · Score: 5, Funny

A good amount of tannins, some peppery notes, a hint of vanilla. A nice, full-bodied product. For the price, not bad at all. Should go well with game.
1. Re:My review by Darinbob · 2013-07-18 08:28 · Score: 3, Funny
  
  I went and bought it in a box!
Rather large number by Anonymous Coward · 2013-07-18 07:06 · Score: 3, Insightful

Reminds me of this old story about Windows.
Re:64-bit arm support? by iggymanz · 2013-07-18 07:11 · Score: 3, Informative

it is indeed for developers who port x86 windows software to ARM 64, it is not an emulator but just a way to have windows function API
Re:64-bit arm support? by Anonymous Coward · 2013-07-18 07:14 · Score: 2, Interesting

64-bit ARM Windows binaries running on Linux ARM hardware.
10,000 changes by aztektum · 2013-07-18 07:16 · Score: 5, Insightful

Without more context that is the most useless metric I've ever seen.
Did they find/replace 10,000 typos?

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1. Re:10,000 changes by Anonymous Coward · 2013-07-18 07:45 · Score: 5, Funny
  
  One bit was changed 10,000 times with 10,000 patches.
  It's back to its old value, in case you wondered... ;)
2. Re:10,000 changes by marciot · 2013-07-18 08:21 · Score: 5, Funny
  
  Without more context that is the most useless metric I've ever seen.
  Did they find/replace 10,000 typos?
  Yup, and all of them were in the comments. The one developer who cares about spelling and grammar in the comments leads in productivity, as measured in code checkins.
3. Re:10,000 changes by VAElynx · 2013-07-18 11:14 · Score: 5, Informative
  
  Well, in that case, I'm sorry but you're a twat. The candidate gave an intelligent answer to an idiotic question.
Re:Finally by TheRaven64 · 2013-07-18 07:50 · Score: 3, Insightful

I think GOG and other commercial users of WINE have been working on (or, at least, funding) Mac support. There's a much bigger market for Windows games running on Mac than there is on other *NIX platforms.

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Crossover by jbolden · 2013-07-18 08:22 · Score: 2

One of the big wine devs is Codeweavers which makes CrossOver a commercial implementation of Wine for Mac.
That can't be right, What does the scouter say? by IcarusMoth · 2013-07-18 09:00 · Score: 4, Funny

It's over 9000!!
Not that many changes... by Anonymous Coward · 2013-07-18 09:01 · Score: 5, Funny

They really only made 16 changes but that sounded too low so they converted to binary
Re:linux on the desktop is dead by caseih · 2013-07-18 16:52 · Score: 2

Funny I have always felt the same way as you about Windows. Quite often while working with windows, often just trying to make it useable for me, I feel like I'm wasting precious time. Then I got back to my comfortable desktop and feel a lot better.
I have used linux for many years but I don't follow what are rambling on about with installing wine. I install it with aptitude install wine and things are just fine. The handy winetools script installs a bunch of things and it works for the one or two apps that I run with it occasionally. On one box I install from the latest git code just to see how things are progressing. But if you're having trouble building from source, then this route is not for you (on any OS).
Funny about how you keep dvds and hard drives full of msi's and exes and drivers! For me I just keep a copy of my home directory. Everything else I can install from a net install of Mint or some other distro, and just about everything I use daily is in the repos. Linux hardware support seems quite good to me these days. Even Nvidia's driver is in repos. It's a different paradigm is all. To me the command line is no different than navigating the depths of the registry on windows.