winehq.org— The popular Windows implementation for Unix has reached a new milestone with their 1.0 RC4 release. This brings them even closer to the anticipated 1.0 release sometime this year.
Jun 6, 2008View in Crawl 4
They set a criteria of a few applications (one of them Photoshop CS2) running flawlessly. There's still a lot of apps that don't run, but there are thousands that do.
Linux users keep telling me to switch and just run Wine, but how do you expect me to switch if Adobe CS3 doesn't run on Linux?Have you given us a reason to recommend GNU/Linux to you? The community won't recommend you to switch if you tell us you are perfectly happy on Windows. Switching is voluntary. You either do or don't. It's no real win or loss to us if you use GNU/Linux or not.We will get vocal though if someone starts to dis GNU/Linux because it's not of use to him/her personally and starts generalizing that therefore GNU/Linux is unusable for everybody. I'll assume that is not the case here...
[i]When did Wine start?[/i]Wine started in 1993. (See Wikipedia).[i]I seem to remember a friend using a windows emulator in Linux YEARS and YEARS ago... O_o[/i]That was probably WABI by Sun Microsystems (licensed by and ported to Linux by Caldera International). An emulator which wraps around (a licensed) DOS and Windows 3.11. (<a class="user" href="http://everythinglinux.org/wabi/index.html%29">http://everythinglinux.org/wabi/index.html%29</a>[i]So it just seems odd that it's not even to version 1 yet.[/i]The Wine project reverse engineers everything clean room. So they have to figure everything out from public (and clean room) specifications and observing Windows' behavior. They are also aiming at a hostile moving target. I'd say it is quite a feat they have progressed to the point of releasing 1.0 RC4.
srg13Jun 7, 2008
They set a criteria of a few applications (one of them Photoshop CS2) running flawlessly. There's still a lot of apps that don't run, but there are thousands that do.
mrviklundJun 7, 2008
Whine?
sarixeJun 7, 2008
I'd like to propose a toast... to health!
ratripJun 9, 2008
Linux users keep telling me to switch and just run Wine, but how do you expect me to switch if Adobe CS3 doesn't run on Linux?Have you given us a reason to recommend GNU/Linux to you? The community won't recommend you to switch if you tell us you are perfectly happy on Windows. Switching is voluntary. You either do or don't. It's no real win or loss to us if you use GNU/Linux or not.We will get vocal though if someone starts to dis GNU/Linux because it's not of use to him/her personally and starts generalizing that therefore GNU/Linux is unusable for everybody. I'll assume that is not the case here...
ratripJun 9, 2008
[i]When did Wine start?[/i]Wine started in 1993. (See Wikipedia).[i]I seem to remember a friend using a windows emulator in Linux YEARS and YEARS ago... O_o[/i]That was probably WABI by Sun Microsystems (licensed by and ported to Linux by Caldera International). An emulator which wraps around (a licensed) DOS and Windows 3.11. (<a class="user" href="http://everythinglinux.org/wabi/index.html%29">http://everythinglinux.org/wabi/index.html%29</a>[i]So it just seems odd that it's not even to version 1 yet.[/i]The Wine project reverse engineers everything clean room. So they have to figure everything out from public (and clean room) specifications and observing Windows' behavior. They are also aiming at a hostile moving target. I'd say it is quite a feat they have progressed to the point of releasing 1.0 RC4.
romulasryJun 14, 2008
<a class="user" href="http://digg.com/linux_unix/Wine_1_0_rc5_released">http://digg.com/linux_unix/Wine_1_0_rc5_released</a>