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Wine 1.4

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It seems like only yesterday Wine 1.0 was released!

Well, it was 1360 yesterdays: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=220164

There is one problem that worries me, 1.4 came out with a known (for few RC's and 2-3 releases before) regression that makes Photoshop CS5 unusable - not sure about older ones too but it might also be the case :(

Care to link to the bug report?

http://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=version&...

latest test entry is mentioning that - i also encountered it - before i used last stable from fedora - that worked well. I would have to dig buzilla for reports, but i wouldnt be surprised if there are no reports for it.

Yeah, the chances of a regression being fixed increase massively if you do a regression test to bisect the offending commit and file a bug on Bugzilla.

Dude, you don't have to tell me that. I've done it multiple times in past.

Official announcement: http://www.winehq.org/announce/1.4

Cool, Joystick support. I wonder if it will run FMS? (R/C model simulator, http://n.ethz.ch/~mmoeller/fms/index_e.html)

Once it runs that, and maybe Netflix, I have no reason to ever boot back to Windows.

I tried using CrossOver to run Office 2007 a year ago, and while it basically worked I found it was just as good if not better to run Windows in VirtualBox (and I don't even have VM instructions on my processor).

But that's not an option unless you own a Windows license, and one that allows virtualization at that. Right?

Some Windows licenses don't allow you to virtualize?

OEM versions of Vista and 7 have license terms that forbid them being run under virtualization.

True, though you can still use VMWare Converter [1] image your OEM install and then run it in a vm. You just get the constant reminders that Windows is not authentic and you should activate it.

1. http://www.vmware.com/products/converter/

Oh wow, I had no idea.... I'm using the license that came with my HP laptop to run Windows 7 Home Premium in a VM on my Ubuntu install.

They never said a word when I called to activate it.

Interesting, didn't know that.

I haven't looked at it lately, but I think one reason I used to run Wine instead of a VM was that Wine gives better 3d support for games. I even ran EVE for a while, before I realized that Wine wasn't able to draw the lasers pew-pewing from my ship, which made things kind of boring.

Now to go search and see if Wine 1.4 works on FreeBSD at all.

The DIB engine is something I've been anxiously looking forward to for a long time now. It makes productivity suites.. work. For me the biggest thing was not being able to run Sonar and many VST plugins under Wine. Now I'm waiting for them to figure out Jack audio output again, and then we get a new version of KX Studio ( http://kxstudio.sourceforge.net ) with realtime patches. Other than the GUI problems which are probably fixed by Wine 1.4, this setup gives stellar performance compared to anything you can get on Windows or OSX.

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