Wine 0.9.44 Released 201
jshriverWVU writes to let us know about the release of Wine 0.9.44. Wine is a free implementation of Windows on Unix/Linux. New in this release are: better heuristics for making windows managed; automatic detection of timezone parameters; improvements to the built-in WordPad; better signatures support in crypt32; still more gdiplus functions; and of course lots of bug fixes.
Yes (Score:2, Informative)
Yes.
(If you want a useful answer, ask a meaningful question).
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Re:useful yet? (Score:4, Informative)
It has support for Direct3D, tons of winapi functions, etc... It's pretty awesome at this stage, really.
Re:How is this /.-worthy news? (Score:3, Informative)
What are you running under Wine when this happens?
Have you filed a bug report?
Re:useful yet? (Score:5, Informative)
The things it falls short on are things like the latest office products, latest adobe products and some of the games I like to play. It's helpful in places but does not yet close the gap for me.
Wordpad is actually important... (Score:4, Informative)
Re:Any chance of a merge? (Score:5, Informative)
So, to merge, we would have to either convince transgaming to make their code completely free and LGPL, or convince all Wine authors to make their code non-free and a part of transgamings commercial product. I don't think either of those two alternatives are very likely.
Re:Wine breaks backward compatibility a lot. (Score:4, Informative)
To be fair, Wine does suffer quite a lot from regressions. Don't take my word for it - look up a few of your favourite games on the AppDB [winehq.org] and notice how the playability level varies from one release to the next.
That's not so likely to be a problem with the major apps. World of Warcraft and MS Office are likely to be rested between releases, so they tend to be fairly stable. On the other hand, it's pretty much a crap-shoot whether Deus Ex (my favourite use for Wine) will work with any particular release.
Don't get me wrong; I think Wine is a fantastic project, and the number of apps they can handle has risen steadily over the time I've been using it. But being realistic, the do have a problem with regressions. Once it gets out of beta, that will hopefully change.
Re:Does it run on (Net||Open)BSD or Solaris yet? (Score:2, Informative)
Re:New wine project (Score:5, Informative)
Re:securecrt in wine with correct screen size (Score:2, Informative)
Better yet:
Re:Any chance of a merge? (Score:5, Informative)
Cedega used to have an advantadge on games since Wine held on Direct3d while waiting for Cedega to release its implementation; it never happened. So Wine's Direct3d began late, but it's catching up.
Nowadays, Wine and Cedega are quite close in game compatibility, while wine is much better with non-gaming stuff. Cedega's "work it around so that the game works instead of properly implementing it" is reaching its limits, and wine will soon run Cedega's "supported games" better than Cedega itself, not to menction non-Cedega supported games