Linked by Thom Holwerda on Sun 21st Oct 2007 10:50 UTC, submitted by Michael
"This week's release of Ubuntu 7.10 is a significant win for the free software community. Not only does this release incorporate an updated package set - most notably with the Linux 2.6.22 kernel and GNOME 2.20, but it also delivers on new desktop innovations from BulletProofX and displayconfig-gtk to Compiz Fusion being enabled by default on supported systems. However, for those business professionals and gamers that remain dependent on some Windows-only binary applications, the WINE project has been making some excellent headway into supporting Windows applications on the Linux desktop. With Ubuntu 7.10 and WINE 0.9.46 in hand, we had set out to compare the performance between Windows XP and Gutsy Gibbon with WINE on two popular DirectX benchmarks."
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2007-05-16
Well, these are by no means cutting edge games, but I use WINE to run StarCraft and WarCraft 3. I cannot run them smoothly in Vista for some reason, and yet they run really nicely in WINE.
Specifically, Warcraft 3 is really laggy at times at 1024x768 in Vista but runs smashingly at the same res in WINE.
What does it mean? Who knows.
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