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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.
Lots of features and bug fixes, including 64-bit support, but I suspect the typical WINE user will be more interested in a simple list of programs that now work with it.
Deja vu: In the 80s we had a 70ish actor as POTUS, a woman PM in the UK, and a bald leader of that other nuke superpower
I'm guessing that WINE doesn't leak users (design) data back to Microsoft? This could be -exactly- why you would want to run pro tools on WINE these days... It's precisely why I was thinking the same thing when I read the comment.
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!
I recall long ago (2003 maybe?) one of the Wine developers showed up on Tech TV and Leo Laporte asked him something like "if wine isn't an emulator, then what is it?" and the dude answers back "it's an emulator". I have a feeling that the rest of the wine devs were gritting their teeth at that though, but I never checked their mailing lists to see.
My understanding is that rather than an emulator, it's just an API wrapper, or alternatively a simulator or maybe "high level emulator", but I'm not an expert on how you name these things.
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.
A bug fix isn't a bug fix in the normal term. As far as wine is concerned, a bug is "this random program x doesn't work"
Perhaps he wants to run those applications and run his preferred OS at the same time.
WTF? You'll pay for AutoCAD or SolidWorks, but are too cheap to buy Windows? You deserve what you get, I guess.
You think I run Linux because I can't afford free-as-in-beer windows? Newsflash: many Linux desktop users already have the windows license when it came bundled with the computer. Our reasons for discarding the windows install has nothing to do with price.
I'm a minority race. Save your vitriol for white people.