After nearly 15 years of development, the WINE project is scheduled for the landmark 1.0 release. As with most open source programs, it is hard to sit back and say "ok it's done". The work will always continue, but at some point the program at least accomplishes the original, or in this case, realistic goal. The WINE website now has posted a list of programs that are planned to work properly, constituting the 1.0 release. This sudden optimism in the WINE developer community probably has something to do with the huge boost that Google gave them recently. WINE will probably never boast full compatibility with every Windows application there is, unless Microsoft decides to help (hey, stranger things have happened).
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3-22-2008 @ 1:49PM
Zoli Erdos said...
But we're already on Wine 2.0 :-)
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3-22-2008 @ 1:50PM
Zoli Erdos said...
oops, link missing:
http://www.zoliblog.com/2007/12/24/forget-saas-here-comes-waas/
3-22-2008 @ 2:12PM
Steve Portigal said...
Might be helpful to say what the heck WINE is in your piece?
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3-22-2008 @ 4:10PM
Michael Rose said...
Wine= Wine Is Not an Emulator. It's a compatibility layer, a way for Win32API-based programs (ie. Windows XP apps) to run on non-Windows platforms without actually running Windows (as distinct from emulators/virtualizers like Parallels or VMware, which require a Windows license and virtualize the hardware instead of building compatible APIs).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wine_(software)
Why Wine, and open-source versions of the Win32 stack in general, are important: there are millions of applications comprising billions or trillions of lines of code written to the Win32 API; many are mission-critical, and some of those don't have source available. Eventually Microsoft isn't going to support those APIs anymore, and those applications will be orphaned unless there is a comprehensive, open platform that allows them to run on other systems.
3-26-2008 @ 4:38PM
Bufsabre said...
id venture to say that if youre excited about this article you already know what wine is so you dont really need to state what it is
3-23-2008 @ 3:17AM
Angsuman Chakraborty said...
Yeah, but what makes 1.0 so great?
I was looking to learn about some new features etc.
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