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Wine 1.0 pops the cork: Run Windows apps on Linux
by Brad Linder Jun 17th 2008 at 5:00PM
Wine 1.0 installation instructions are available for a whole slew of distributions, including Fedora, Red Hat, SUSE, Mandriva, Slackware, Ubuntu, Debian, FreeBSD and Solaris. Or if you wait a few days there's a good chance the latest version of Wine will be added to your distro's official repositories.
To be perfectly honest, you might not notice a ton of changes from previous versions of Wine. But the latest build does include a ton of fixes for specific applications including WinRAR, Skype, Dragon Naturally Speaking, and video games like Call of Duty 1.0
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So, just how good at time waster games are you? Think you've got the stuff? Well, The World's Hardest Game 2.0 doesn't think you do.
Yes, amazingly, it's possible to have a sequel to a game called "The World's Hardest Game". It doesn't seem logically possible, since if the first one was actually the world's hardest, how could another one come along and share the moniker? It made me doubt the name in the first place. That is, until I tried the game.
The mechanics of the game are very simple. You are a small red square, ...
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Todd said 5:09PM on 6-17-2008
Now all you pod people have no excuse not to abandon ship!
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melloncollie128 said 5:38PM on 6-17-2008
No AutoCAD support means no Linux for me.
melloncollie said 5:39PM on 6-17-2008
No AutoCAD support.
That's a pretty big reason why Is tick to Windows.
James said 9:58AM on 6-18-2008
Most games made after the turn of the millenium still run poorly or not at all. A big fat "feh" to that.
I think the root of the problem is that 3D card manufacturers don't take Linux seriously, because it doesn't have the market share, because it can't run games, because its drivers suck, because 3D card manufacturers don't take it seriously...
melloncollie said 5:39PM on 6-17-2008
Damnit all.
Sorry for the double post.
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Ben said 10:02PM on 6-17-2008
You do know that Wine stands for "Wine is not an Emulator" don't you?
It is an open source implementation of the windows API.
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VitaminCM said 2:48PM on 6-18-2008
Does anyone know if this will run on the PS3 version of Linux?
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