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- armo, on 11/11/2007, -1/+69Dugg to annoy again ;)
Well not really, this is good stuff, the releases are really coming thick and fast and it just keeps getting better and better. The developers are doing a sterling job in what must be a very difficult task. And before people start whining that it doesn't run this app or that app you'd be far better of giving them your support or maybe even donating $10 to the project and you'd have them running in no time. - inactive, on 11/11/2007, -3/+53"Features new improvements to copy protection" - YAY!....................now you can run DRM infected trash on a quality OS.
- Coldkill, on 11/12/2007, -2/+42Just stop......please.....stop
- Urusai, on 11/12/2007, -1/+39I can only assume you've never had to deal with Windows as a programmer...it's a nightmare of deprecated and partially implemented, overly generic APIs. Just look at COM, for instance, a sure-fire way to murder any object-oriented capability your OS might pretend to have.
- Remmy, on 11/12/2007, -1/+35The command line is more powerful than anything a GUI will ever give you. If you're too lazy to type, then stick with you Malware, virii infested, phoning home, DRM riddled, closed source OS and stop complaining about others.
- neodorian, on 11/11/2007, -1/+30So basically you're too stupid to operate a computer without having it all in nice fisher price pictures? News flash: you don't need the command line anymore!
- xptweakerntn, on 11/11/2007, -11/+36Hmmm..yeah.
"Buried as lame. Just run Windows and do Windows Key + F search for "Linux" and delete it ALL. Sheesh, when will people realise that you pay money for Windows because it is BETTER?"
Searching in Windows for Linux (even if dual booting) will come up with nothing. I used to use Windows, but switched to Linux because it is better (not because it was free). You don't pay for Windows because it is better, but because they charge for it. It's sorta like....paying for a prostitute with AIDS, yeah, you pay for it, that's for sure.
(Posted comment from Linux, running Opera)
(I must say...Opera displays comments better, and also allows you to comment, because I couldn't comment in Firefox) - jdhore1, on 11/12/2007, -0/+22I admit it sounds a bit stupid, but when you look at it from an angle of how useful it is, it makes a lot of sense. Would you rather not have the option to play some games or run some apps on linux because they have DRM or would you rather the option be there, in wine (so it can't hurt your linux apps) so you can run those apps and play those games?
- KloroFormd, on 11/11/2007, -4/+24Troll much?
- NoOneButMe, on 11/13/2007, -1/+19It runs the single player demo. http://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=v ...
- Scotty562, on 11/12/2007, -1/+17I love every release. Great job to all those that work on this amazing project! A couple of the games I like to play, Doom 3, Diablo 2, Starcraft, Dawn of War, Civ 4 + expansions, Batlefield 2142, all run perfectly! This is absolutely amazing! I'll digg every Wine update that I see :).
- Haroldx, on 11/11/2007, -2/+17Sad. This is the first digg comment I've posted in about a few months or so. I just wanted to say that was hilarious, and that you're highly uneducated, when it comes to Linux. Do us all at digg a favor: Shut up.
- Stonekeeper, on 11/10/2007, -0/+14Wine is awesome. A friend of mine recently installed gutsy and the only game he's bothered about is Football Manager 2008. Thanks to wine, he can get rid of windows entirely. And yes, that's a REALLY good thing.
- ubergeek09, on 11/11/2007, -1/+14Don't be jealous just because your ignorant.
- daradib, on 11/10/2007, -1/+14I can comment in Firefox (using Firefox in Ubuntu right now). But the Digg comment system sure does have issues.
- mburk, on 11/10/2007, -1/+14Dude, I think he was being serious. He wants support for DRM content so he doesn't have to run XP.
- mvent2, on 11/11/2007, -3/+15Windows doesn't support Linux filesystems so you can't use it to delete Linux. But nowadays Linux has NTFS write support so I can search for Windows to delete that crap and even have results faster with efficient indexes. Guess which OS is the ***** one now? Thats right, the one you have to pay for. LMAO.
- YokoZar, on 11/11/2007, -0/+12Hi, I make the debs. I got rather lazy with 0.9.48 because I was busy all week at the Ubuntu Developer Summit.
I was actually building the etch packages overnight. It's actually quite a bit of work, and according to my server logs I only have half as many etch users as I do edgy users. Feisty is twice as popular as Edgy, and at the moment Gutsy is about as popular as Feisty. In numerical terms, this makes Etch about 1/4 as important as Gutsy or Feisty. - cstrippie, on 11/11/2007, -1/+12Hey, dumbass: every version of windows, including Vista, has a command line. At the command line you can perform tasks that are faster and more powerful than the equivalent GUI.
- celebi23, on 11/11/2007, -2/+12holy ***** you're retarted. I got dumber reading your ***** up comment. Please go away.
- GMorgan, on 11/12/2007, -1/+11You really think visual tools are used by top level projects?
:) the naivety some show on Digg is fun. Real projects do not allow their code base to be polluted by the mess generated by such tools. Perhaps for quick and dirty prototyping they see some use among good projects but never to develop the code that gets released. They are merely there to attract a few mediocre programmers and managers. - linuxrebel, on 11/11/2007, -1/+11When they released Wine 0.9 I jokingly said .... wow only 99 more releases before 1.0. Now as we sit with 0.9.49 I feel vindicated even if I was joking.
- ISIfunded911, on 11/14/2007, -0/+9On Debian we used to get a deb for the new version immediately. For 0.9.46 we got it long days after its release, 0.9.47 we got it 10 days after its release, for 0.9.48 we still do not have it after 16 days and 0.9.49 is out.
That is a incredible for a software with so many devs and contributors. - dogson, on 11/11/2007, -0/+9Doom 3 has a native linux client
- pennpaper, on 11/11/2007, -3/+12ubuntu 7.10 ftw
- mooninite, on 11/12/2007, -1/+9Posting from Linux in Firefox...
Firefox 3.0 is lighting quick with its new rendering system. Try it out... - Protoss, on 11/11/2007, -0/+7Bi-weekly.
- NoOneButMe, on 11/10/2007, -3/+10See http://thisismyinter.net/?p=21 for Mac builds.. or just download directly from http://thisismyinter.net/Files/Darwine/Leopard/0.9 ... - I'll have Tiger up sometime later tonight probably.
- teaguecl, on 11/12/2007, -0/+7Agreed. You can compare Parallels to VMWare - they both use virtualization to run the guest OS. Wine on the other hand is a compatibility layer, and I do not believe you can compare it to anything else - nobody else has been ambitious enough to try this approach. From a technical point of view virtualization is more accurate, but slower. However, Wine has a legal advantage in that it does not run a copy of Windows at all - and therefore does not require you to purchase a license for Windows. Parallels, VMWare (and all the other virtualization solutions) do require you to have a license in order to run Windows. I realize that many people don't, but that's just stealing... and not an acceptable solution for any business or individual with morals.
- ubergeek09, on 11/10/2007, -0/+7Why in the world would you want to use IE in Linux? Or in any OS for that matter?
- zzzpoohzzz, on 11/13/2007, -0/+7let me know when your windows box runs crysis.
- Tizlox, on 11/11/2007, -0/+7I still dont understand why someone would wander into a thread that is obviously directed at linux users - and hype on about windows.
Yes, windows is a great operating system for running windows based applications. We understand that. And dont need to be reminded at every opportunity.
Wine is brilliant for those of us who do not have access to a windows PC, or simply want to run a select few windows applications.
Personally, I have ubuntu installed on a second PC as I cant afford a second copy of windows. And my ubuntu box can do pretty much anything I do on my Windows PC. - andycr512, on 11/12/2007, -1/+8I switched to Linux just for the amazing development tools. GCC + Eclipse/CDT = An environment better than Visual C++, and I used MSVC for years. I have SVN right in the project browser, an excellent task system that lets you focus on what you need to work on and switch between tasks rapidly, and more. VC++ charges you $2,500 for simply compiling multiple files from the same project at once on multiple CPU's; with Eclipse and GCC I get that for free. GCC is also a lot faster, at least on my project - I was curious and asked a person using Windows XP and $5,000 of Microsoft development tools working on the same project with the same code how long it took to do a clean build. We both timed it - 1:18 for him with a 3Ghz Core 2, 0:18 for me with a 2Ghz Core 2. Amazingly faster.
"Linux is development hell for Windows developers"
That I can agree with. Those who have no idea how to use it will have issues with it. However, those who go ahead and learn how it works are rewarded with a far superior development platform. - Stonekeeper, on 11/10/2007, -0/+6Almost a carbon copy of an old post of mine, but dugg nevertheless. Keep the message alive!
- aldenhg, on 11/11/2007, -0/+6That's because Apache rocks the house. If it weren't for LAMP all we'd ever see would be Error 500s and 404s.
- andycr512, on 11/11/2007, -0/+6Not to mention the fact that the Windows command line is a -complete joke- compared to bash.
- jonesin, on 11/11/2007, -0/+6Anyone have a link to where I can donate to the wine project?
- arekarek, on 11/11/2007, -0/+6file a bug report! what are you waiting for?
- colorme, on 11/10/2007, -0/+5I'm not sure if the two can really directly compete. Parallels for Mac is intended for fully virtualizing a machine, where the entire OS is installed. Furthermore, video performance is terrible in Parallels compared to Wine.
- KrazyA1pha, on 11/11/2007, -0/+5There is a PayPal link on the bottom right of the main page.
http://winehq.org/ - sirhomer, on 11/11/2007, -0/+5It'll be soon enough. Maybe in the next two or three versions.
- mercurysquad, on 11/11/2007, -0/+5Do you need an onscreen keyboard to click on ?
- RoamShell, on 11/11/2007, -0/+5Dugg this article and your comment. I don't complain about wine because I haven't donated anything yet, or, well, used wine at all yet. Will in the future though! Good to see it's alive and kicking
- oobuntu, on 11/10/2007, -0/+4Interestng. I love Debian but generally only use it on servers. My desktop runs Gutsy for cutting edge support in large numbers. There's a lot to be said for using a popular distro
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