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Wine 3.0 Released (softpedia.com)

Posted by BeauHD on from the come-and-get-it dept.

prisoninmate shares a report from Softpedia: The Wine (Wine Is Not an Emulator) project has been updated today to version 3.0, a major release that ends 2017 in style for the open-source compatibility layer capable of running Windows apps and games on Linux-based and UNIX-like operating systems. Almost a year in the works, Wine 3.0 comes with amazing new features like an Android driver that lets users run Windows apps and games on Android-powered machines, Direct3D 11 support enabled by default for AMD Radeon and Intel GPUs, AES encryption support on macOS, Progman DDE support, and a task scheduler. In addition, Wine 3.0 introduces the ability to export registry entries with the reg.exe tool, adds various enhancements to the relay debugging and OLE data cache, as well as an extra layer of event support in MSHTML, Microsoft's proprietary HTML layout engine for the Windows version of the Internet Explorer web browser. You can read the full list of features and download Wine 3.0 from WineHQ's website.

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  1. Emulator by sexconker · · Score: 1, Informative

    WINE is in fact an emulator. An emulator is a thing that emulates the behavior of another thing. The word isn't specific to what you emulate or how you do it.

    WINE is the worst retconned recrusive backronym I've ever seen.

    1. Re:Emulator by squiggleslash · · Score: 3, Informative

      Yup. For those who didn't grow up with this stuff: as an example, back in the 1980s, there were a lot of programs marketed as CP/M emulators, which worked with chips like the V30, a 8086 compatible chip that also could natively run 8080 software. The emulators emulated the CP/M API (BIOS and BDOS), not the CPU, allowing software for CP/M 2.x to run under MS DOS (and access the MS DOS file system.)

      The misnomer that you can only use the term emulator for CPU emulation, and not API emulation, seems to be relatively new, I'm almost inclined to stay it started in this millennium.

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    2. Re:Emulator by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

      The reason it's saying it's not an emulator is because it's executing the x86 natively, using its own standin for the nt kernel, a pe loader, etc. Emulation in this context is referring to not having to emulate the whole "pc platform" in order to do this, which a few moments of research could've told you. But I guess it's just easier to be snide than it is to look something up.

  2. Re:Does it run Adobe CC? by halivar · · Score: 4, Informative

    You can search by app here. PS CC18, at least, has a "gold" rating, meaning you should not have any trouble with it. The CC suite is one of those "we better get this right" apps they prioritize during development and testing.

  3. Still no Java support by Rick+Schumann · · Score: 3, Informative

    The one piece of Windows-only software I'd like to run, sadly, requires Java, and WINE still doesn't, apparently, allow you to install Java under it. Guess I'll just have to try Windows XP in a virtual machine.

  4. Re: Why wine? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Informative

    Can't tell if trolling or ignorant. Linux has its fair share of viruses, including Arches, Pilot, and systemd.