Wine 1.0 — Uncorked After 15 Years

pshuke writes "After 15 years of development, Wine version 1.0 has been released. Wine is an Open Source implementation of the Windows API on top of X, OpenGL, and Unix. While perfect windows compatibility has not yet been achieved, full support for Photoshop CS2, Excel Viewer 2003, Word Viewer 2003 and PowerPoint Viewer 2003 have been among the goals prior to the release. For further information about supported applications, head over to the appdb. Get it (source) while it's hot."

Let me be the first to say....

[Tetsujin]

Holy shit!

Re:Office 2007 runs on Wine 1.0 too.

[Mordok-DestroyerOfWo]

Some would consider not running Office 2007 to be a feature.

Bah! I'll wait for version 3

[thomasdz]

As I've learned well in the Microsoft world... always wait for the THIRD version.
I've marked my calendar for June 2038...

Re:Everyone's downloading Firefox 3 right now!

[Anonymous Coward]

Thousands of nobodies right now are bringing the site down.

Great, something to download

[mgiuca]

while I wait for you bastards to stop hammering poor mozilla.com.

Re:Everyone's downloading Firefox 3 right now!

[Anonymous Coward]

For every copy you downland I upload 2 thus negating your record setting pursuit.

Better luck next time hippie.

Get it while it's hot?

[JKFLBOB]

I dunno...Personally, I like my wine at room temperature.

site is dead

[hey]

What a surprise the WINE site is dead as is getfirefox. Victims of their own success.

Duke Nukem Forever!

[Anonymous Coward]

I do find it a little disappointing that Wine didn't set getting Duke Nukem Forever working out of the box as a goal for 1.0!

I predict a multitude of such responses- "Wine 1.0 shouldn't have been released until it could run..."

It would be interesting to know what factors determined that it was ready for 1.0 release. Personally, I suspect it was a rounding error (perhaps they were using Excel in Wine 0.91 and it accidentally rounded up to version 1.0).

Re:FINALLY!

[mrsteveman1]

It goes great with vintage Windows apps.

Oh, and bread.

Re:Office 2007 runs on Wine 1.0 too.

[Nursie]

Oh, so it's about not workoing for brainless, intolerant morons?

I can handle that.

I would really like to try this out

[an.echte.trilingue]

I would really like to try out Wine, but I couldn't find the WinXP version on the site, which is strange because usually open source apps get ported over really quickly. I tried installing the source tarball in CYGWIN, but no avail. Anybody know where I can get the Win32 binaries?

Re:FINALLY!

[mrsteveman1]

Sure, you can sue anything with nipples

winehq slashdotted

[damn_registrars]

Hmm, their webserver appears to be having trouble keeping up with the traffic.

I wonder if they were running IIS through wine to serve the page?

Re:What will interest me is

[MighMoS]

Wine doesn't have a logo? I'd send you a link, but the website is down. Oh wait! All I had to do was scroll up to see it ON SLASHDOT!

Re:Let me be the first to say....

[SwordsmanLuke]

Sorry to burst your bubble, but I'm pretty sure you're not the first to say "Holy Shit!" I mean, there's even an album. [wikipedia.org]
If you wanted to be truly the first to say, you should have tried something more like: "Hold the newsreader's nose squarely, waiter, or friendly milk will countermand my trousers."

reference [youtube.com]

Re:Office 2007 runs on Wine 1.0 too.

[Born2bwire]

I'm a brainless, intolerant moron you insensitive clod!

Re:FINALLY!

[igibo]

I've got nipples, Greg. Can you sue me?

Request for help

[Anonymous Coward]

I've already written Fuck. If one of you guys could implement Dine..

Re:Office 2007 runs on Wine 1.0 too.

[maxume]

Recognition is the first step.

The next step is to eat some pudding, it will make you feel better.

Re:I would really like to try this out

[lbgator]

Pay no attention to that "whoosh" sound. It'll pass in a second.

Re:I would really like to try this out

[Anonymous Coward]

I once promised myself that I would never do this to somebody, but this is just too much.<br>
Joke -->*
You --> O
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Re:I would really like to try this out

[Toll_Free]

After spending the better part of a couple days attempting to fool C & C Gold under Vista X64, I think I found my solution.

16 bit and 64 bit = bloods n crips.

--Toll_Free

Re:I would really like to try this out

[Anpheus]

Oh god! Watch out there's a huge arrow approaching your head!

Re:FINALLY!

[tehbunneh]

And there is a fatal flaw in your pointing out that he has a fatal flaw in his last argument, namely - Wine is not an emulator

Re:I would really like to try this out

[iampriteshdesai]

Wat do U mean by it???

Re:Office 2007 runs on Wine 1.0 too.

[jellomizer]

I cant open PDFs can you send to me as a DOC

Re:FINALLY!

[BillGod]

I never use anything 1.0.. Will wait for 2.0 before I upgrade!!!!

Re:FINALLY!

[thetoadwarrior]

The great thing about America is you can use anything. I sued my next door neighbor's dog for keeping me awake for two nights. I won all his kibble and there is a restraining order on him.

Re:Oblig

[mrsteveman1]

Sure i can try, but you have to put these clamps on first....

Re:Office 2007 runs on Wine 1.0 too.

[iroll]

Where I work (public high school district), completely computer illiterate people (teachers) are required to Telnet into a VAX to input attendance and grades.

Telnet. Into a VAX.

They are shown how to do this on their first day. Their coworkers can show them how if they forget. The IT guy will come hold their hands ONE MORE TIME if they still can't handle it. And if all that fails, guess what? Find another job.

If your workplace says "save it as a PDF," your workers will learn to put it in a fucking PDF, even if they whine for the first week. The slowest and stupidest of them will eventually have the steps "save as... PDF!" on a sticky on their monitor and it will get done. It only takes one boss to get 'er done.

For your stupidest customers, guess what you can do? EMBED THE FUCKIN PDF IN A DOC, LOL!!!!!!!!!!! Yes, I recently received a contract from a residential contractor in this exact manner.

Re:FINALLY!

[dotancohen]

Dear software dev,

That's a good start. The rest could use some work, though.

Re:FINALLY!

[DaveV1.0]

The fanboy response:

But, but, but, choice is good! And, the more choices the better! It can't possibly hurt the community to have to choose from 15 different possibilities! That's just crazy talk!

Re:Take it step by step

[Anonymous Coward]

Linux users need to make themselves more visible, so that the market will not seem so small.

Dear God, that's the last thing we need!

Re:FINALLY!

[krystar]

Wine is best when aged. serve chilled with a side app of Cheese(tm)

Re:Office 2007 runs on Wine 1.0 too.

[tkw954]

I find it a little disappointing that they couldn't fix bug #6971. That's a vast quantity of games that are unplayable because they won't warp the mouse from one side of the screen to another when it hits the edge. They won't even mark it as a high severity bug, even though it meets the qualifications (makes many applications unusable), it's one of the most duplicated bugs, and it's one of the most highly voted bugs.

http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=6971 [winehq.org]

Apparently, the bug is "Can't connect to local MySQL server"

Re:Office 2007 runs on Wine 1.0 too.

[zsau]

As a desktop admin, there is nothing harder than... Even worse is...

You really should take the time to think before you write. Or even after you've written, but before you've previewed!