Wine 1.0 pops the cork: Run Windows apps on Linux

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Wine 1.0 pops the cork: Run Windows apps on Linux

by Brad Linder Jun 17th 2008

It may have taken 15 years, but the developers behind Wine have finally decided the Windows emulation layer for Linux and Unix-based systems is stable enough to wear a 1.0 label. Now, don't get too excited. That doesn't mean every last Windows app will run on Linux under Wine. But it does mean that Wine's more stable than ever, and thousands of Windows applications have been reported to work.

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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Tags: linux, windows-emulator, wine, wine-1.0, winehq

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!

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.

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.

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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