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- Ryuuzaki, on 10/24/2008, -1/+82short changelog from announcement:
- Improved device management for DOS drives.
- Many Richedit fixes.
- Various installer fixes, particularly for IE 7.
- First steps of Direct3D 10 implementation.
- Various bug fixes. - weizbox, on 10/25/2008, -0/+61mmmm, dx10 dev begins :)
- S2000, on 10/25/2008, -0/+52First I was hoping for dx10 in XP, but if we can skip all that and go straight for Linux, that's fantastic.
- mftkoehler, on 10/25/2008, -3/+44In other news, Hangover 1.0.3 was updated with additional nausea and regret functions.
- pitdog, on 10/25/2008, -0/+28When AutoCad and other Autodesk products will finally work in linux. Those are the only reasons i have to keep windows.
- MrMax182, on 10/25/2008, -0/+26the Same for Adobe Creative Suite.
- nxsty, on 10/25/2008, -0/+25Will this get me more drunk than the last version?
- TheZorch, on 10/25/2008, -2/+26WOOT!!! Final Fantasy XI finally works!!!!! GOOD BYE WINDOWS!!! The only reason I kept you around is now gone. You are out of here!!!!
- oobuntu, on 10/25/2008, -3/+27As with many other Linux users with a lady in their life, we are waiting anxiously for Sims2 to work, hence no dual-boot required for our wives/partners to get their Sims2 fix:
http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=8051 - ABEL3616, on 10/25/2008, -3/+26I think you're single, and YOU want to play Sims 2... I know I do... it's ok to admit it, it's fun
- Kingoftherings, on 10/25/2008, -3/+24Yes it can.
- jacekpoplawski, on 10/25/2008, -1/+20Thanks to all Wine hackers for their awesome work!
Let's play some games, now...! - onemangang, on 10/25/2008, -5/+18have your heard of open source?
use it... - zwaldowski, on 10/25/2008, -0/+13WineHQ releases compiles for Windows. In theory, all you'd have to do is drag those d3dx10_*.dll's in the compile into XP's system32 directory, and you'd be golden.
- pHreaksYcle, on 10/25/2008, -4/+16Ignorant...
- bj1989, on 10/25/2008, -1/+13Yes, in a slideshow sort of way.
- JohnFlux, on 10/25/2008, -0/+12Then you have to dual boot
- pHreaksYcle, on 10/25/2008, -0/+12@MrSarcasm
lol - spiffyfitz, on 10/25/2008, -0/+11Nice!
- Tichondrius74, on 10/25/2008, -0/+10digg down for complete retardation
- Jholder112233, on 10/25/2008, -1/+10@asspants
nobody cares. - annjay, on 10/25/2008, -1/+10I will must try this...
- Nosyn, on 10/25/2008, -2/+11You fail. The reason why I love WINE is for playing games like WoW and Starcraft on my linux box. So therefore, you fail.
- alexforcefive, on 10/25/2008, -1/+10"many other Linux users with a lady in their life"
- fuzzlepop, on 10/25/2008, -3/+12red or white?
- mllawso, on 10/25/2008, -1/+10I don't think Maya was designed for technical modeling.
- UNL1M1T3D, on 10/25/2008, -1/+9Lol have fun killing sheep.
- regeya, on 10/25/2008, -1/+9Troll == FAIL
Wine is a cleanroom Windows implementation. You've almost hit the nail on the head: While some fanboys will scream and yell at, say, Google for producing a closed-source version of Picassa using Winelib, they'll pat 'em on the back for checking their Winelib changes back into WIne, and not only that, but after screaming and yelling about proprietary software, they'll tweak Wine until it'll run Steam, because somehow games are exempt from the "never any proprietary software to the point of going against common sense" attitude.
Personally I look at Wine as a way of running, say, older commercial games (see above) without needing to reboot into Windows, or without needing a separate machine. - Clbull, on 10/25/2008, -2/+9But can it run Crysis?
- 4321234, on 10/26/2008, -0/+7But with wine, you can run the windows applications, and when you're done, you don't feel dirty.
- inactive, on 10/25/2008, -3/+10Really, thats the only reason? .... really?
- brooklotzkar, on 10/25/2008, -0/+7Does compiling dx10 in wine actually work.... cuz damn, i'd do the switch to ubuntu in a second!
- UNL1M1T3D, on 10/25/2008, -2/+8My feelings with Wine are similar to my feelings with wireless in Linux. They are making progress, though slowly, we just need to be patient.
- SpyDerMann, on 10/25/2008, -2/+8I know i shouldn't feed the trolls, but for some reason I feel compelled to answer.
Windows = Legacy, buggy, obsolete.
WINE = Legacy compatibility pack for Linux.
As the dx10 implementation begins, I see something that we'll be able to do in WINE (in a not-so-far future) that you can't do in WinXP: Run DirectX10 games. Maybe this will show you how GNU/Linux is superior to Windows.
Also, to upgrade your Linux system, you only need to install a new version of the kernel. To upgrade your Windows system, you need to purchase Vista along with all the annoyances it comes with.
There. Have you food. - SpyDerMann, on 10/25/2008, -1/+7And sell my soul to the devil? NEVER!!!
- kleverness, on 10/25/2008, -0/+6Two words: No 3D
:( - fireballfreddy, on 10/25/2008, -0/+6No, but there are less bugs in it.
- zwaldowski, on 10/25/2008, -0/+5I'd really like for the Wine team to develop a UI port, so that the Win32 API outputs to GTK+ or QT.
- talkingwires, on 10/25/2008, -1/+6Two words: virtual machine.
...at least, I know people who use virtual machines extensively and swear by them. My computer is much too slow to run a second OS, and sometimes struggles to run just one. - FreDre, on 10/25/2008, -5/+10There's a Maya edition for Linux, you know.
- talkingwires, on 10/25/2008, -1/+6So, you prefer iTunes to Amarok? And you just can't ditch Internet Explorer? To you, Notepad must be a killer app.
- talkingwires, on 10/25/2008, -1/+6Linux is great and all, but the applications are mostly written by unpaid programmers in their spare time. In many cases, the applications are equivalent or superior to their Windows counterparts. But there are still a lot of gaps that haven't been filled.
I'm a graphic designer/photographer, and find the lack of a Photoshop/Lightroom/InDesign/LinoType/Pantone workflow very inhibiting. Wine alleviates this to an extent, but when I need to do serious work, not just putter around with cobbled together hacks, I use Windows or OS X.
Oh, and there's games, too. - bj1989, on 10/25/2008, -0/+5Or vim ;-)
- regeya, on 10/25/2008, -0/+4So...um, the Sims Linux boxed version was our imagination?
Granted, that was the Cedega version of Wine, but c'mon...saying The Sims doesn't work yet is the tiniest bit disingenuous. - spiffyfitz, on 10/25/2008, -3/+7I wish there was a Mac OS X version that didn't suck. :(
- svivian, on 10/25/2008, -0/+4Question: Is it possible to have font-smoothing in Wine? I've looked through all the options I could fine but no luck. I use Wine for Textpad (because amazingly no Linux text editor matches half its features like advanced regex search/replace), and I find the aliased text difficult to read.
Also, any options for a better-looking interface in general, e.g. better buttons (more like XP standard or even Vista theme)? - secrity, on 10/26/2008, -0/+3What works
Gameplay
What does not
Mouse needs special settings, Insane bloom, lots of graphical corruption
What was not tested
Multiplayer
Additional Comments
http://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=v ... - srg13, on 10/26/2008, -0/+3But that requires running Windows - and why go through that when you can run the apps on Linux?
- thecheatah, on 10/25/2008, -0/+3what... its true!
- mooninite, on 10/26/2008, -0/+3...but Microsoft, and their blind fanboys, say you /need/ Vista for DX10. This is witchcraft!
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