Linked by Thom Holwerda on Thu 19th Jan 2006 19:00 UTC, submitted by twickline
A set of banchmarks has proven that under some conditions, WINE can beat Windows XP SP2 at some tests. To be exact, out of 147 tests, WINE beats Windows XP on 67. The WINE version used was 0.9.5, running on a Gentoo Linux system, with some fairly decent hardware.
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2005-11-14
"The kind of gamers who will run out and buy the latest hardware will *never* run Linux. Don't lose your head here.
Windows is *the* platform for gamers everywhere, and that is not going to change because Linux might do a few FPS better in a few games. "
I know a few gamers who dual boot. If GNU/Linux performs better at some games they'll certainly take advantage of that.
"As for OS X ... it hasn't been publically released for x86 hardware. It has been released along with x86 Mac hardware."
What's your point? The poster was saying that now that Apple uses x86 you can run Wine on it.
http://www.opendarwin.org/projects/darwine/
Since more people will be running Darwin on a x86 more people will likely take interest in Wine. When it works it's a lot better than VirtualPC or dual booting.