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Wine 2.0 Released (softpedia.com)
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Softpedia: It's finally here! After so many months of development and hard work, during which over 6,600 bugs have been patched, the Wine project is happy to announce today, January 24, 2017, the general availability of Wine 2.0. Wine 2.0 is the biggest and most complete version of the open-source software project that allows Linux and macOS users to run applications and games designed only for Microsoft Windows operating systems. As expected, it's a massive release that includes dozens of improvements and new features, starting with support for Microsoft Office 2013 and 64-bit application support on macOS. Highlights of Wine 2.0 include the implementation of more DirectWrite features, such as drawing of underlines, font fallback support, and improvements to font metrics resolution, font embedding in PDF files, Unicode 9.0.0 support, Retina rendering mode for the macOS graphics driver, and support for gradients in GDI enhanced metafiles. Additional Shader Model 4 and 5 shader instructions have been added to Direct3D 10 and Direct3D 11 implementation, along with support for more graphics cards, support for Direct3D 11 feature levels, full support for the D3DX (Direct3D Extension) 9 effect framework, as well as support for the GStreamer 1.0 multimedia framework. The Gecko engine was updated to Firefox 47, IDN name resolutions are now supported out-of-the-box, and Wine can correctly handle long URLs. The included Mono engine now offers 64-bit support, as well as the debug registers. Other than that, the winebrowser, winhlp32, wineconsole, and reg components received improvements. You can read the full list of features and download Wine 2.0 from WineHQ's websiteS.
I hear it runs Cygwin so there's that.
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I hear it runs Cygwin so there's that.
I'm trying to figure out why the heck anyone would want to do that, since both Mac and Linux offer a complete (and superior) shell already.
It's called a joke, you might want to read up on that :)
Highlights of Wine 2.0 include the implementation of more DirectWrite features, such as drawing of underlines
It truly is the year of the Linux desktop!
Linux running Windows in a QEMU, running a Linux subsystem, running Windows in WINE. Let's see how many system resources we can hog without actually running anything.
$ man jokes
No manual entry for joke
Nope, no help for you there either.
Slashdot still doesnâ(TM)t support Unicode after it was added to the HTML standard in 1997.
They run Cygwin under Wine for their Apple ][e emulator, to run Logo. Once you're in Logo, it's turtles all the way down.