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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RE: Comment by davidgurvich
by Doc Pain on Tue 17th Jun 2008 18:56
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The current version, wine-1.0-rc5, works well on FreeBSD and Debian for bridgebase.
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.)
I've actually used it for flash9 sites in FreeBSD and it seems to work well. Java still doesn't work. The only time my laptop overheated was using flash9 in windows-opera with wine. Does not get nearly as hot while rebuilding world + watching linux-flash7.
Why don't you use BSD's native Java, if I may ask?
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2005-11-13
I have been using wine for bridgebase for a few years. In that time there have been many crashes and regressions. The current version, wine-1.0-rc5, works well on FreeBSD and Debian for bridgebase.
I've actually used it for flash9 sites in FreeBSD and it seems to work well. Java still doesn't work. The only time my laptop overheated was using flash9 in windows-opera with wine. Does not get nearly as hot while rebuilding world + watching linux-flash7.