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Debunking the Debunked WINE Myths
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| Myth 1: "Wine is slow because it is an emulator"
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| Myth 2: "Wine is bad for Linux"
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| Myth 3: "Emulators like VMWare are better"
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| Myth 4: "You need Windows anyway"
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| Myth 5: "Wine is bad, Winelib is better"
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| Myth 6: "Wine will always be playing catch up to Windows and can't possibly
| succeed at running new applications"
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http://www.nuxified.org/blog/debunking_debunked_wine_myths
Linux is more backward-compatible than Vista, some would suggest. Microsoft has
lost $90 billion in value so far this year (source: Bloomberg). Things are
changing faster than the 'press' wants people to know. The thing to fight now
is corruption of law (they try to legalise swpatents in India now).
Microsoft tried threatening Wine and other projects with its
unwanted 'sponsorship' of Sourceforge Awards.
Recent:
[Wine 1.1.1 Released]
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| The Wine development release 1.1.1 is now available.
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| What's new in this release (see below for details):
| - Fixes for Photoshop CS3 and Office 2007 installers.
| - More progress on gdiplus.
| - Support for Unicode files in regedit.
| - Improved video playback.
| - Many Richedit fixes and improvements.
| - Various bug fixes.
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http://www.winehq.org/?announce=1.1.1
A new way to use Linux.
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| I downloaded his project, a virtual desktop, residing on my windows XP
| partition, signed up as a user, and am now testing everything to see how it
| works. You sign on to a Linux desktop, use its programs, save the data, which
| resides onsite, or you can save it locally. It is still in its early stages
| and there is not every program that you might want, or need. There are
| different levels of subscriptions, so I can see a use for individuals, and
| even small business operators.
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http://community.zdnet.co.uk/blog/0,1000000567,10008701o-2000334184b,00.htm
Wine 1.0 Review
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| As a conclusion: for those who really need Windows applications, Wine is a
| very good solution. The official website includes an applications database,
| with testing results for each of them and how well they perform.
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http://vivapinkfloyd.blogspot.com/2008/06/wine-10-review.html
Related:
The making of Wine (how to make Windows apps merrier with Linux)
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| Enterprises badly want alternatives to
| Windows. Desktop Linux has come a long way since 1999, too. and (who knew?)
| the Mac has become the ultra chic, must-have PC. The enterprise has its
| alternatives - if it can only get those mission critical Windows apps to work
| flawlessly. Wine, in its commercial form, has been doing so for years.
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| So, in 2008, the 1.0 version will hit the streets and the timing could not be
| more perfect. White admits that not every Windows application will work
| flawlessly on Wine, but many a critical one for the enterprise has been
| specifically optimized.
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http://www.networkworld.com/community/node/26915
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