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Wine 1.0 Released

winehq.org — The Wine team is proud to announce that Wine 1.0 is now available. This is the first stable release of Wine after 15 years of development and beta testing. Many thanks to everybody who helped us along that long road!

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  • sq377, on 06/17/2008, -0/+252Duke Nukem Forever, it's your turn.
  • cowanh00, on 06/17/2008, -0/+184I wonder if...... oh wait: http://appdb.winehq.org/
  • tj111, on 06/17/2008, -3/+130Much props to the wine developers. Writing a complete windows dll interface library from scratch is no small task. While it may not be perfect, windows is far from perfect itself, so perfection is a relative term here. Congrats.
  • Ederion, on 06/17/2008, -4/+107Remember: Wine Is Not an Emulator
  • injuryproneerik, on 06/17/2008, -1/+86First Firefox 3.0 - then this.

    My God, is Duke Nukem going to be released by the end of the week?!?
  • dualscreenman, on 06/17/2008, -1/+84It may not be a revolutionary jump from 0.9.x, but since Wine 0.9.61 an amazing 342 bugs have been squashed, with 140 Wine 1.0 bugs being fixed or resolved otherwise. While there are probably still many thousands of bugs out there in any of the 10,000 plus applications for Windows, Wine 1.0 offers a relatively robust delivery of the crux of a decade and a half of software development, the end result helping us use our own software without a dependency on Windows.

    Here's to another great decade and a half!

    By the way, if you have rc5 you basically have 1.0...
  • centran, on 06/17/2008, -5/+74because you can.
  • blooby, on 06/17/2008, -1/+63I wasn't expecting this until Friday, what a pleasant surprise! Although, it does feel odd digging a wine release on a Tuesday.
  • thtroyer, on 06/17/2008, -0/+50For anyone interested, Wine will continue to do biweekly releases:

    >>>"After 1.0.0 is released, we will continue development on the trunk, and call the new
    >>>biweekly developer releases 1.1.x.
    >>>
    >>>There are a small number of bugs that we would have liked to fix for 1.0.0, but were
    >>>unable to. Once they are fixed on mainline, will will probably create a 1.0 branch,
    >>>backport the fixes from mainline, and do a 1.0.1 release. "

    Source: http://wiki.winehq.org/WineReleasePlan
  • AirRaven, on 06/17/2008, -5/+55...Any chance of a Windows version? =P
  • bj1989, on 06/17/2008, -3/+52Although very informative, the above comments lack enthusiasm I and probably many others feel for this release. Therefore I will represent this enthusiasm in this comment....

    Yay! Wine 1.0. After 15 years! Once again the developers did an amazing job. Let's not forget these guys are reverse engineering the entire Windows API. Basically open sourcing Windows.
  • deaftly, on 06/17/2008, -3/+45You keep drinking it until all the pain goes away.
  • laofmoonster, on 06/17/2008, -2/+41Firefox 3 and Wine 1.0 in the same day!
  • Archon810, on 06/17/2008, -0/+37I wonder if people will still ask.
  • ruskie, on 06/17/2008, -0/+36Should compile fine on windows, afaik instructions are on winehq.org wiki
  • WCL23, on 06/17/2008, -4/+35BALMER SMASH!
  • TheWindBlows, on 06/17/2008, -2/+30better flash player support.
    or bloat is a must have thing for him.
  • MavRevMatt, on 06/17/2008, -8/+33Windows, wait forever to get a stable release to play games that still crash.
  • Ynot82, on 06/17/2008, -1/+24this isn't just a naming issue (as in the case of Linux vs. GNU/Linux)

    An emulator emulates hardware
    enabling you to run software, as is, on the emulated hardware

    Wine is a compatibility layer
    It re-maps API calls on-the-fly
    and does no hardware emulation
  • willwill100, on 06/17/2008, -2/+25this is good news
  • ORBAT, on 06/17/2008, -3/+26By sacrificing a goat to Cthulhu.
  • inactive, on 06/17/2008, -0/+22ReactOS uses a lot of Wine code, if I understand correctly.
  • notwizt, on 06/17/2008, -6/+27Why the hell would you want to run the windows version of Firefox 3 through Wine?
  • inactive, on 06/17/2008, -0/+21Wine is not an emulator because the API is actually there, the applications are literally making use of the host processor and the API is running on the host processor too. The API itself could be considered "emulating" windows in the sense that it pretends to be a specific version of windows, but to avoid confusion when talking about Wine to n00bs, just let them know it's not an emulator. (Trust me, it would be more confusing to explain later that it runs programs, it doesn't emulate Windows)

    GNU/Linux is just saying GNU as in Linux + the GNU base system. (meaning the shell, the core utils, etc.) Usually, Linux + Anything can just be called Linux and nobody will say anything.
  • MrTea, on 06/17/2008, -4/+25I see what you did there.
  • Raptor007, on 06/17/2008, -1/+22Spore Creature Creator is out now, too! Another "will it ever come?" release.
  • Daniel591992, on 06/17/2008, -0/+19I wonder how the developers celebrate?
  • gandhii, on 06/17/2008, -0/+19give it another 15 years.. ;]
  • gandhii, on 06/17/2008, -1/+19Even more impressive is backwards engineering a closed one and making it work.
  • chubbymidget, on 06/17/2008, -4/+22Congrats!!
    Here's to another 15 years of wine, and another 10 for Windows!
  • noob09, on 06/17/2008, -0/+17Wow, 15 years of beta testing. Congrats to the people that contributed to this great piece of software.
  • Kbiscu1t, on 06/17/2008, -2/+19Finally, a STABLE release!
  • jcannonb, on 06/17/2008, -2/+18This is a happy day for all people who don't run Windows as their primary OS. Even those of us running Macs. Maybe now that it is 1.0 status, Wine (and Crossover Office) will increase their OS X support.
  • cowanh00, on 06/17/2008, -2/+18Yeah like Christmas!
  • trollick, on 06/17/2008, -9/+25I'll stick with Wine 0.9.61. Wine 1.0 is such a resource hog and it is nothing more than Wine 0.9.61 plus eye candy. There is no reason to switch.
  • wicketr, on 06/17/2008, -1/+16I don't think they could have picked a better day to play second fiddle. The Firefox release will dominate any news article with little mention of this unfortunately
  • holyskeleton, on 06/17/2008, -5/+20another release, another server crash.
  • BalooUrsidae, on 06/17/2008, -0/+14wine already supports .NET.
  • inactive, on 06/17/2008, -0/+14Ok, pretend I'm a noob who doesn't want to use Windows any more...how do I take advantage of Wine?
  • shitforbrains, on 06/17/2008, -3/+17It's not stupid. to find something that you can run on Windows that will make Windows run 10s of thousands of Windows applications, sounds like a godsend. I'm running Vista and I can't make Outlook work all day without at least blowing up once.
  • samuelmcm, on 06/17/2008, -0/+13Wine and cheese ;)
  • BadAsh71, on 06/17/2008, -0/+13If you are a noob you may also not be comfortable with Wine through its command line interface. Maybe you just fled Windows but want to still use some of your favorite Windows Apps without having to resort to the Command Line. If this is you, I would suggest a nice GUI:

    Wine-doors (my favorite)
    http://www.wine-doors.org

    PlayOnLinux
    http://www.playonlinux.com

    Or, if you feel like paying for something that has been in production for quite a long time and has much more bells and whistles, you can get:

    CodeWeavers CrossOver Linux (used to be CrossOver Office)
    http://www.codeweavers.com/products/cxlinux

    Or if you are only interested in Windows Games and willing to pay:

    CodeWeavers CrossOver Games
    http://www.codeweavers.com/products/cxgames

    I have used CrossOver Office before and I loved it... worked great for easily installing many, many Windows Apps on Linux through Wine, however, I'm cheap, so I go for the Freeware alternative Wine-doors which works quite nicely.

    Through Wine you can easily install and use things like Microsoft Office 2003, Adobe PhotoShop, CDex, 7-Zip, WoW among many other of your favorite Windows Applications.... oh yeah and Internet Explorer if you really are so inclined :p
  • sarixe, on 06/17/2008, -2/+15open source, wait 15 years to get a stable release to play 5 year old _proprietary_ games that were released only on a _proprietary_ OS. Play current stable native games.
  • bigsteve, on 06/17/2008, -1/+14With beer! ...
  • dualscreenman, on 06/17/2008, -1/+14Seriously, there were only some minor tweaks to the translations and removing a few spaces between some periods in winecfg and regedit. The bugs that were marked fixed weren't necessarily fixed because of any improvements that came since rc5.
  • thushan, on 06/17/2008, -1/+14A well deserved Cheers!

    2 days early too!
  • withears, on 06/18/2008, -1/+13Does it play Ubutnu?
  • drakelord, on 06/17/2008, -1/+13Not true. When I first started using Linux, there were plenty of communities of friendly linux users who helped me solve my problems, as long as I tried first and actually put forth some effort.
  • inactive, on 06/17/2008, -2/+14Oh, right, Adobe Flash 10 STILL ***** BLOWS >_< Fix the damn overlapping problems, fix the damn ALSA problems, fix all of the other damn problems already Adobe...

    Too busy trying to push out CS4 i'll bet.
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