PlayOnLinux
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| To sum it up, POL is a promising frontend installer for Windows and Dos
| programs. Although there are some scripts that are outdated (POL uses Wine
| 0.9.37 to run MSOffice 2003, and the IE6 installation script - which uses the
| IE4Linux script - doesn't work properly on the current 0.9.53), the advantage
| of POL online repositories (and consequently an active community
| contributing) gives it the upper end in updating installation scripts for
| supported programs.
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http://wine-review.blogspot.com/2008/01/playonlinux.html
More examples of the maturity of Wine below. Any beginner can use it easily (no
CLI).
Related:
Does WINE + Linux support more Windows apps than Vista?
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| WINE supports most of the applications which are made for Windows
| 2.0 up to Windows XP. WINE has the ability to run different versions
| of IE, run most of Adobe's products, run World of Warcraft, Half Life
| 2, Microsoft Office 2003, XP, 2000 and 97, Visio, Quicken,
|
| * Command & Conquer 3 Tiberium Wars
| * Need for Speed Carbon
|
| [...]
|
| What about drivers, hardware support, and upgrades?
|
| Want to upgrade you XP to Vista? no chance. might as well do a fresh
| install and shell out $300.
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http://jagtalon.wordpress.com/2007/04/30/does-wine-linux-support-more-apps-than-vista/
Stop Wine From Beating Your Windows Apps With The Ugly Stick
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| Ubuntu 8.04 is planned to have usability improvements for Wine, among these
| improvements is a theme for Wine applications that matches the GTK theme.
| Can’t wait until April?
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http://tombuntu.com/index.php/2008/01/04/stop-wine-from-beating-your-windows-apps-with-the-ugly-stick/
Wine 0.9.53 Released
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| This is release 0.9.53 of Wine, a free implementation of Windows on Unix.
|
| What's new in this release:
| - RunOnce and Run entries now executed on startup.
| - Beginnings of support for emulated disk devices.
| - Many Richedit improvements.
| - Nicer looking color dialog.
| - Lots of bug fixes.
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http://winehq.org/?announce=0.9.53
Seven Versions Of WINE Benchmarked
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| The performance in the fourteen 3DMark 2001 SE and 3DMark 2003 tests were
| fairly consistent in the releases between WINE 0.9.44 and WINE 0.9.50 --
| generally only swaying a few frames in either direction -- though the
| performance overall has slightly declined and we were surprised by a few of
| the results.
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http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=938&num=1
Winefix - improved desktop integration for Wine
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| A script called winefix. In short, it allows Wine applications to be run just
| as easily as those native to Linux, meaning that they can be linked to or run
| from any directory, whether from a terminal or even a file manager like
| nautilus. It also handles some of the more awkward Wine extensions like .lnk
| and .msi, akkowing them to be run with a double click.
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http://wine-review.blogspot.com/2007/10/winefix-improved-desktop-integration.html
Wine is Getting Good
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| Wine is at version 0.9.47. As it nears version 1.0, it's becoming clear that
| the goals of the project are being met.
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http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/21069
Wine-doors 0.1 aka Vinegar Finger
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| I am proud to announce that after just over a year, 809 changes, and before
| LUG Radio Live wine-doors 0.1 has been branched in SVN, A tarball is
| available from the downloads page, if anyone builds debs and rpms I’ll use
| them honest.
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http://www.wine-doors.org/wordpress/?p=24
Wine-doors 0.1.1 (oenology oidium)
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| Wine-doors 0.1.1 has been released with some minor changes;
|
| * Fixed bugs with file not found handling for applications such as
| dreamweaver
| * Added multiple URLs in a pack
|
| [...]
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http://www.wine-doors.org/wordpress/?p=37
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