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Wine 1.8 Released (winehq.org)
An anonymous reader writes: Wine 1.8.0 is now the latest stable release of Wine Is Not An Emulator and available from WineHQ.org. Wine 1.8 features include support for DirectWrite, Direct2D support, very limited Direct3D 11 support, simple application support of DIrect3D 10, support for process jobs, 64-bit architecture support on OS X, networking updates, and over 13,000 other individual changes.
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what does wine stand for
Wine is much less reliable and yields much lower performance than recompiling this same application with Winelib.
I use it every day for some application that is unfortunately not ported to Linux yet.
When you got Winae? Out the window goes windows.
And booze trumps wine. Wine lost. Me drunk. Muwhahawhawh.
The most important new feature is the Direct2D support, which will enable Wine to run Starcraft at full speed, 16 years after Starcraft was released and just after its sequel's final expansion pack was released.
In that time, the sequel stole the pro scene from the original, then destroyed it by sucking, leading people to conclude that RTS games are no longer wanted.
Hopefully, with LOTV out of the way, people can return to Starcraft, and, with modern Wine, can return to Starcraft without even booting Windows.
Only another 16 years till we get the golden wine 3.1 release. What will become of MS on the desktop / slab / server in 16 years.
If so, then it's a total non-starter period.
Last time I tried wine on OS X was 3 or 4 years ago, and it wanted me to install X11, and I said screw this, I'll just run Windows in parallels.
If you're not even going to make an attempt at writing a normal native app on OS X, then seriously, don't even bother, all you're doing is embarrassing yourselves and pissing off users by giving the false impression you've actually spent more than 5 seconds in OS X.
How does a phoronix link sneak into an article about wine? The anonymous poster is probably Michael Larabel himself, trying to grub more money.
Seems to me that the best approach, given both modern multi-core processors, would be doing something like ReactOS, and making VMs, jails and zones out of it running on Linux, BSD and UNIX.
Have 2 editions - one an XP based win32 edition, and a 7 based win64 edition
Either run native Linux apps, use a windows machine or a virtual machine.
Oh good finally I can run x11 under cygwin!
I thought the usefulness of this died a long time ago with modern virtual machines. Especially since program like VMWare can run windows apps "natively" meaning the windows are outside the emulator and look like regular windows.
I'm not trying to troll, but I'm genuinely interested. What benefit does WINE provide over a modern virtual machine program?
- The built-in Wingdings font contains more glyphs. ...because...important, yes?
.... it is still not mature enough to leave the 1.x. tag.
Honestly, by now what is the point of WINE? The list of supported applications is so pathetically small (and ridiculously old) that I don't see any point of wasting time and effort on it. The world is moving away from Windows and even platform dependency.
Wine is too little too late.
Windows as a lock-in platform is on life support and meanwhile Wine still doesn't run a single Windows application with perfect transparency.
What's the point?
STOP . AMERICA . NOW
It has always been so hit and miss it blows my mind that they even continue to try. Wine is a disaster in terms of user friendliness and how often it doesn't work compared to how often it sorta works to how often it does. If I absolutely were forced to use Linux to play games, I'd just go find games with native support instead of trying to rely on that train wreck.