I hate it when people always say this sort of thing when wine comes up on slashdot. They tend to forget that the wine that gives all of these screenshots is only part of wine.
A significant part of the wine development is on winelib, which allows windows applications to be compiled on linux, bsd or pretty much any unix for i386. There is also work on porting winelib to sparc systems.
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possible the best magazine ever! Out to protect us from the MADD conspiracy. Drunkard!
Wheres the button that causes pain. I know the computer can't feel it, but I would feel alot better. Especially if the monitor flickered or something.
A significant part of the wine development is on winelib, which allows windows applications to be compiled on linux, bsd or pretty much any unix for i386. There is also work on porting winelib to sparc systems.
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I fail to see how this capability would take any support away from porting applications.