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[News] Next Linux Release Reaches RC6, Wine 1.0 Near, 1.1.0 Foreseen

  • Subject: [News] Next Linux Release Reaches RC6, Wine 1.0 Near, 1.1.0 Foreseen
  • From: Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Tue, 18 Mar 2008 05:11:27 +0000
  • Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy
  • Organization: Freelance
  • User-agent: KNode/0.10.4
Linux 2.6.25-rc6

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| Ok, I lost a day-and-a-half this week due to a disk that decided to get 
| read errors due to an unfortunate power outage, and had to spend too much 
| time regenerating my normal setup, but I don't think I lost any emails, 
| and things seemed to have calmed down a bit, so here's to hoping that -rc6 
| is starting to look better.
| 
| [...]
| 
| Shortlog appended, patches and git trees in all the usual places once they 
| have mirrored out.
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http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/3/16/143

Wine 1.0 Release Criteria updated

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| Dan in return modified the release criteria and Alexandre thought the new 
| changes looked good. Later in the thread a couple people asked about small 
| janitorial patches, and it was agreed if the changes were low risk they 
| should be applied and go into Wine 1.0 with larger patches being deferred to 
| Wine 1.1.0    
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http://wine-review.blogspot.com/2008/03/wine-10-release-criteria-updated.html

1.0 will exist indeed. Better Win32 compatibility than Windows Vista
probably...


Recent:

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


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...
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http://jagtalon.wordpress.com/2007/04/30/does-wine-linux-support-more-apps-than-vista/

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