Linked by Thom Holwerda on Tue 17th Jun 2008 17:02 UTC, submitted by rexstuff
I took them 15 years. During those years, the project grew from something that didn't work, to something that sometimes under special circumstances could maybe perhaps work, to something that sometimes just worked, all the way to something that works in a number of pre-defined cases. You won't believe it, but Wine 1.0 is here.
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2006-10-08
I toyed around with older versions of wine in 2005/2006 on FreeBSD 5 in order to play some older "Windows" games, worked without problems. It's good to see something new still working (rc5 on FreeBSD 7). The amount of "hand crafted operation" you had to put into wine in order to configure it in a proper manner has been shrinked very much, so it's no big deal to run *.exe via wine today. Great work!
(I don't have much need for tools like wine, but I'm sure more and more users will want to switch to Linux / UNIX when the means of running their old applications is becoming more and more comfortable.)
Why don't you use BSD's native Java, if I may ask?