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- schestowitz, on 11/11/2007, -4/+30Compatibility layer, not emulation.
- vraa, on 10/27/2007, -3/+23spam or not, this program shows lots of potential.
if it works right (and the wine appdb is 'up to date'): it won't matter what OS you're running. wine will be able to process all the calls that'd you'd normally need windows for and this app -- wine doors --- will make installation so freakin' easy; even yo momma can do it. - RoadWarriorX11, on 10/27/2007, -6/+24ok, enough spamming already
- brickbat, on 11/11/2007, -4/+20(W)ine (I)s (N)ot an (E)mulator
- Garfunkel, on 10/27/2007, -1/+15since when is it the most used app?
idiot. - SimonGray, on 10/10/2007, -1/+15Yeah, it would be really funny... if only it were true.
- thomasprebble, on 10/27/2007, -2/+14Great news. Providing Microsoft don't throw a spanner in the works we could be soon at the point where most Windows software will "just work" on Linux.
- sinatosk, on 11/11/2007, -0/+9because you think it sucks and others don't... you know... we like to decide for ourselfs
- harlowsmonkeys, on 10/27/2007, -1/+8There's an interesting story behind that name, since WINE is, of course, an emulator. For the first several years of the project, the release notes and FAQ said the name meant "WINdows Emulator". The "Wine Is Not an Emulator" name was suggested when there was some concern about Microsoft's claim of trademark on the name "Windows". However, that concern faded, and they kept saying "WINdows Emulator". Sometime later, they changed it so that it meant both, and the FAQ said to take your choice.
What finally got them to drop the "WINdows Emulator" meaning was the rise of CPU emulators. Many people's only exposure to emulators was through CPU emulators, such as products like Virtual PC, which emulated hardware, and were slow. The concern was that people would think that WINE was inherently slow like those other emulators. Changing the name was a lot easier than trying to educate everybody that CPU emulators weren't the only kind of emulator and that the others weren't inherently slow, and thus we arrive at the present day, where only the "Wine Is Not an Emulator" meaning, originally the later, secondary, meaning of the name, is now the only meaning.
(If you want, you can find dates for all the name changes on usenet. The WINE release notes were published somewhere under comp.emulators, and you can get the changes narrowed down to a couple weeks). - sint4x, on 10/27/2007, -0/+6Interesting, this looks pretty cool. I like it when individuals jump on the Ubuntu wagon and try to make things easier for people (Not just functional).
- Garfunkel, on 10/27/2007, -1/+7It's a great app, i use it occasionally but have found it's rather buggy, but it's written in python and is an interesting concept to try, going to test the new version now. Thanks guys!
- HonoredMule, on 10/10/2007, -0/+5Me three, me three.
- srg13, on 10/10/2007, -0/+5WINE isn't even installed by default on most distros, let alone 'most used'...
- pijalu, on 10/27/2007, -1/+6from http://www.wine-doors.org/screens/ss-operaqt.png
Opera 9 : "Leading Open Source Internet Browser" ? - linkinpark342, on 10/27/2007, -0/+4Am i missing something or has everyone forgotten how to reply to a comment. Sure helps to do that if you're calling someone an idiot.
/me agrees the previous poster is an idiot however - nailer, on 10/27/2007, -0/+4Anyone notice that Wine doors is more polished than Crossover Office?
I'd gladly pay for CXOffice support if they could provide a packaged app with a polished GUI, rather than the mid-90s toolkit-from-hell shovelware. - daedius, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2Does anyone know if there is a wiki anywhere of up to date packages that wine-doors can install?
- bcecka, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2I'll try it when I think I have a need for it. Otherwise, wine completely suites my need for running Windows apps in Linux.
- iceschade, on 11/11/2007, -2/+4You're a moron. Wine Is Not an Emulator.
- WhiteHamster, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2finally, somethin easy for my big fat momma. i think this is a great program, im gonna give it a test run tonight finally
- nikolas, on 10/27/2007, -2/+3Has anyone successfully compiled this on Mac OS X?
- wiihuck, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1i clicked the link and read, but i'm still a bit confused as to what exactly this is. i'm trying to get slingplayer to work on Ubuntu feisty. i followed the how to from the slingcommunity, but it didn't work for me. will Wine-doors help me with slingplayer? can someone explain just what this is for a noob?
thanks. - diggeridooo, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1Awesome piece of software. Keep it up!
- corbs132, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1Buried for use of "wot"
Dugg for actual news - linkinpark342, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1agreed, i'm just setting it up out of boredom about 3 months into this installation...
- inactive, on 11/11/2007, -2/+3I'm sick of the 'Wine Is Not an Emulator' *****. ***** that. The people is familiarized with the emulation term, leave it at that.
- iceschade, on 10/10/2007, -1/+2Maybe so, but Novell are corporate sellouts (deals with MS to avoid patent suits?) and their Linux (SuSE) is one of the worst I've ever tried. It's a heaping behemoth of dependency trouble and S L O W speeds. So ***** Novell and ***** SuSE.
Sun, on the other hand, made Java, so I like them. But at the same time, they made Looking Glass, which had the potential to be great - and spawned the ideas that so many others have been building on - but stagnated so quickly that, by the time they finally released the LiveCD version, their system looked completely outdated compared to the competition. Compiz Fusion kills Project Looking Glass.
The fact is, Ubuntu's community, philosophy, and OS are some of the best I've ever encountered in my entire time with Linux (since 2000). They're the reason why I, too, have jumped on the Ubuntu bandwagon. - klattimer, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1What ubuntu wagon? Ubuntu have just used what SUN and NOVELL told GNOME after their first round of usability testing. NOVELL were the ones on the ball, check out one of the sites they started to help the community http://www.betterdesktop.org/wiki/index.php?title= ...
- iceschade, on 10/10/2007, -2/+3Yeah, we, the unwashed hippie communist masses, who live and love our Linsux OS, who prefer OOo over Office... We are happy with free. Leave us to our inferior products, and go bask in the glory of your Microsoft Gods.
(Someday, though... Someday we'll take over the world.) - Juicey, on 10/10/2007, -0/+0What? What?
- crossers, on 07/16/2008, -0/+0this program have big potential!
http://www.shpe-sac.org
http://www.ocflex.com/
http://www.trgovinca.org
http://www.chasr.org/ - inactive, on 10/10/2007, -1/+1http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=english+lesso ...
- reed311, on 10/10/2007, -2/+1Just let them use their inferior Open Office.
- inksmithy, on 10/10/2007, -2/+1Inferior is an interesting term. The next time you use Microsoft Office (or even the next ten times you use it) count how many of the "features" you use. Format Painter? Maybe. Tables? Probably. Just start typing and bold or italicise when you need to? Almost definitely.
How often have you used the clipart? I mean really, how many times have you used it? Do you think many people use it? Except for - obviously - putting up those not-quite-funny posters at work which let people know about the office party at 3pm next Friday to say goodbye to dear old Marge who has worked in the same damn job for the last thirty years and can remember when everyone had a rolltop desk and a stool. And actually needed a bottle of ink.
Open office may not be as "feature" laden as Microsoft Office, but it has it where it counts. For 95% of users, OOo allows you to turn it on, type, format the text and print it off. It does mail merge very nicely and can open just about everything you need it to. What more do you really need it to do? - reed311, on 10/27/2007, -3/+1It sure makes the front page of Digg more than any other Linux app.
- IllBeBack, on 10/10/2007, -7/+4"wot not"
What? - inactive, on 10/10/2007, -6/+0http://www.digg.com/linux_unix/Top_25_Linux_admin_ ...
http://www.digg.com/linux_unix/Top_50_Linux_apps_2 - skywake, on 10/10/2007, -13/+6although I agree with the top four comments.... they sound very much like comment spam *sigh*
- momsshizzle, on 10/10/2007, -11/+1***** Linsux. How about posting an Office 2003 Service Pack 3 story?
- Nuttyguy, on 10/10/2007, -15/+3I too love this program. I too am really looking forward to seeing this develop. The problem just now is a lack of programs. As time goes on I too am sure that it will be possible to load almost any windows program you want using this.
- xserver2003, on 11/11/2007, -18/+4i bet u love to get spanked by a gorilla.
- specialK16, on 10/15/2007, -27/+3Wine-doors suck. Why is this in the frontpage?
- animus, on 10/10/2007, -26/+1its very entertaining that the most used app in linux is a program to run windows lol
- kazamx, on 10/15/2007, -47/+6I love this program. I am really looking forward to seeing this develop. The problem just now is a lack of programs. As time goes on I am sure that it will be possible to load almost any windows program you want using this.
- digichris, on 10/15/2007, -47/+5I love this program. I am really looking forward to seeing this develop. The problem just now is a lack of programs. As time goes on I am sure that it will be possible to load almost any windows program you want using this.
- coldskool, on 10/15/2007, -47/+3I love this program. I am really looking forward to seeing this develop. The problem just now is a lack of programs. As time goes on I am sure that it will be possible to load almost any windows program you want using this.
- generalzod1, on 10/15/2007, -53/+2I love this program. I am really looking forward to seeing this develop. The problem just now is a lack of programs. As time goes on I am sure that it will be possible to load almost any windows program you want using this.
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