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Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Sun 5th Mar 2006 01:54 UTC, submitted by Dylan

This is release 0.9.9 of Wine, a free implementation of Windows on UNIX. New features include better web browser support, recursive directory change notifications, debugger improvements, and lots of other bug fixes and under-the-hood improvements.

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Good news for me.

by abhaysahai on Sun 5th Mar 2006 03:41 UTC

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2005-10-20

I am already using wine for
1) Running Windows version of firefox, for some windows specific sites like hsbc.co.in and www.raaga.com.
2) Lotus Notes 6.5
3) Company specific financial software.
4) Diablo II LOD

I do not use Cadega, but still am able to run all my required programs.
With wine 0.99 I hope to run Quake 3 more smoothly ( right now it si gittery) and thank wine for making it possible.

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RE: Good news for me.

by m_abs on Sun 5th Mar 2006 04:06 in reply to "Good news for me."

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2005-07-06

Isn't Quake 3 available native for linux? Though I don't have it my self, it's in Gentoo's portage.

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by SlackerJack on Sun 5th Mar 2006 04:17 in reply to "RE: Good news for me."

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2005-11-12

Yes it is and I have the native linux version of Quake3 on cd. I believe you need pak files from the cd to play it native like that though.

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by cutterjohn on Sun 5th Mar 2006 15:27 in reply to "RE: Good news for me."

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2006-01-28

Quake3 is available for linux, and even if it wasn't now, the Quake3 source has been GPLed and released since summer. (Of course you'd have to provide your own map paks from say your windows Q3 cd or the demo...)

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RE: Good news for me.

by asabil on Sun 5th Mar 2006 10:09 in reply to "Good news for me."

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2006-03-03

Quake 3 has already a native linux version

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by JLF65 on Sun 5th Mar 2006 17:10 in reply to "RE: Good news for me."

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2005-07-06

Quake 3 has already a native linux version

Yes, but some Q3 derivatives like American McGee's Alice aren't available. I play it via WINE in Fedora Core.

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