May 2, 2008: Code freeze in effect, on towards wine 1.0!
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| Wine is finally in code freeze in preparation for releasing wine 1.0, and we
| need your help!
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| If you are a user, now would be the time to help us find regressions and file
| them at bugzilla so we know what we have to fix.
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http://www.winehq.org/?news=2008050202
[Wine 0.9.61 Released]
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| This is release 0.9.61 of Wine, a free implementation of Windows on Unix.
| This release marks the beginning of the code freeze for the 1.0 release.
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| What's new in this release (see below for details):
| - Automatic updating of the WINEPREFIX directory.
| - Winhelp now uses Richedit as display engine.
| - Many RichEdit fixes.
| - More improvements to IME support.
| - More quartz fixes.
| - Implementation for many more Gdiplus functions.
| - Lots of bug fixes.
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http://www.winehq.org/?announce=0.9.61
Recent:
The making of Wine (how to make Windows apps merrier with Linux)
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| Flash forward to today. It's been the better part of a decade and Microsoft
| has not been toppled by anyone's reckoning. However it did release Vista -
| perhaps the most hated Windows operating system of all time (though it's hard
| to beat Windows ME on that count). Enterprises badly want alternatives to
| Windows. Desktop Linux has come a long way since 1999, too. and (who knew?)
| the Mac has become the ultra chic, must-have PC. The enterprise has its
| alternatives - if it can only get those mission critical Windows apps to work
| flawlessly. Wine, in its commercial form, has been doing so for years.
|
| So, in 2008, the 1.0 version will hit the streets and the timing could not be
| more perfect. White admits that not every Windows application will work
| flawlessly on Wine, but many a critical one for the enterprise has been
| specifically optimized.
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http://www.networkworld.com/community/node/26915
Related:
Wine 1.0 On The Menu For Desktop Linux Users
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| It looks like Wine's time has finally come: Version 1.0 of the Windows
| emulation software is now slated for a June release. And Linux users almost
| certainly have Google -- or, at least, Google's money -- to thank for moving
| things along.
|
| At this point, Wine has been in development nearly 15 years. No, that's not a
| typo, and there shouldn't be a decimal between the 1 and 5. Of course, for
| most of that time, Wine was an all-volunteer effort; even at the best of
| times, the project was often sorely lacking in QA resources.
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| Codeweavers, which now sponsors Wine development and uses the software as the
| basis for its own Crossover Linux product, certainly helped to pick up the
| development pace: Today, Wine supports nearly 1,300 Windows apps to one
| degree or another, including outstanding support for Adobe Photoshop CS2.
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http://www.bmighty.com/blog/main/archives/2008/03/wine_10_on_the.html
Wine is Getting Good
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| Wine is at version 0.9.47. As it nears version 1.0, it's becoming clear that
| the goals of the project are being met.
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http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/21069
Does WINE + Linux support more Windows apps than Vista?
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| WINE supports most of the applications which are made for Windows
| 2.0 up to Windows XP. WINE has the ability to run different versions
| of IE, run most of Adobe's products, run World of Warcraft, Half Life
| 2, Microsoft Office 2003, XP, 2000 and 97, Visio, Quicken...
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http://jagtalon.wordpress.com/2007/04/30/does-wine-linux-support-more-apps-than-vista/
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