Winos rejoice!

[MaxDepth]

Wine 1.0 Released :wine:

yeah, yeah, yeah software forum

But the question is more for OT folks. Now that major Window apps can run in Linux, will this make you think of switching to Linux in the near future?


EDIT: It is really getting hammered, but here is the Wine Application Database. Yes, Photoshop CS2 runs.

 

[JeffreyLebowski]

SWEET.

 

[CasioTech]

I'm drinking some Merlot right now.

 

[ElFenix]

Originally posted by: CasioTech
I'm drinking some Chardonnay right now.

thunderbird would be more appropos.

 

[Platypus]

oh nice, only 15 years in the making :roll:

 

[Crusty]

Most major apps ran under Wine before 1.0 came out too....

 

[ViviTheMage]

can you load good games on it yet?

doubt it!

 

[BW86]

Originally posted by: ViviTheMage
can you load good games on it yet?

doubt it!

What do you consider a good game? I just got done playing BF2 with it.

 

[Cogman]

Originally posted by: ViviTheMage
can you load good games on it yet?

doubt it!

KotOR, all Half-life 2 based games, starcraft, ect all have worked well for me. (in fact most of them are perfect)

 

[QED]

Originally posted by: Platypus
oh nice, only 15 years in the making :roll:

Yeah, I was thinking the same thing.

I remember tinkering with this way back in my freshman year of college (1995), and had thought they had by now long abaonded hope of releasing a 1.0 version.

 

[preslove]

Do games suffer any performance hit?

 

[MaxDepth]

Originally posted by: QED

Originally posted by: Platypus
oh nice, only 15 years in the making :roll:

Yeah, I was thinking the same thing.

I remember tinkering with this way back in my freshman year of college (1995), and had thought they had by now long abaonded hope of releasing a 1.0 version.

The problem with Wine taking so long was the evolution of the Win 16-32-64 APIs, and how it is was slowly replaced by the other. Once they get libraries compiled, they'd have to follow the next doubling byte code. And it wasn't always easy to follow Microsoft API documentation (if there was any to begin with).

Something I didn't consider that a friend brought up is virtualization. While that means I can have several different environments inside a single hardware configuration, it still means that I have to have the OS anyway.

But still, I'm surprised that still managed to hit their stated goals for 1.0 this soon.

 

[RESmonkey]

Photoshop?

 

[pstylesss]

They are really getting hammered right now...

 

[Platypus]

Originally posted by: MaxDepth

Originally posted by: QED

Originally posted by: Platypus
oh nice, only 15 years in the making :roll:

Yeah, I was thinking the same thing.

I remember tinkering with this way back in my freshman year of college (1995), and had thought they had by now long abaonded hope of releasing a 1.0 version.

The problem with Wine taking so long was the evolution of the Win 16-32-64 APIs, and how it is was slowly replaced by the other. Once they get libraries compiled, they'd have to follow the next doubling byte code. And it wasn't always easy to follow Microsoft API documentation (if there was any to begin with).

Something I didn't consider that a friend brought up is virtualization. While that means I can have several different environments inside a single hardware configuration, it still means that I have to have the OS anyway.

But still, I'm surprised that still managed to hit their stated goals for 1.0 this soon.

Don't get me wrong, I have a lot of respect for the developers of WINE simply because they are blindly reverse engineering windows API calls with relevant success... it's just funny how I've been looking into it as long as I've been using UNIX and they're finally at a 1.0 mark

 

[pstylesss]

Originally posted by: RESmonkey
Photoshop?

Yes, CS2 works well it says.

I'm trying to see if Dreamweaver is supported. If It is I'm installing Suse or Ubuntu on my second work partition today. Those are the two programs keeping me from switching.


And... if their website is any reflection of their ability to develop a program, it's no wonder they just got to version 1.0

 

[LS21]

look at the screen shots

IE5.0
MS Office 1997

YES! Score!

 

[Saint Michael]

No games, no Linux.

 

[BlueAcolyte]

Source engine games work with a couple glitches (I need to use DX8.1 for TF2, but who cares?) Performance seems to be better and worse at the same time. In windows, I get good FPS, but it will stop responding frequently (level switches, starting other programs) In linux FPS is a bit lower, but the window itself is more responsive.