Wine 20040309 - Emulator of the Windows 3.x and Win32 APIs.

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Wine 20040309 - Emulator of the Windows 3.x and Win32 APIs.

About:
Wine Is Not an Emulator. It is an alternative implementation of the Windows
3.x and Win32 APIs. Wine provides both a development toolkit (Winelib) for
porting legacy Windows sources to Unix and a program loader, allowing
unmodified Windows 3.1/95/NT binaries to run under Intel Unixes. Wine does
not require Microsoft Windows, as it is a completely alternative
implementation consisting of 100% Microsoft-Free code, but it can
optionally use native system DLLs if they are available.

Changes:
The winegcc tool was greatly improved, and is now used to build Wine
itself. VxDs are now separate libraries for better modularity.
Improvements and simplifications were made to the drive configuration. A
new setupapi INF script was added to create the initial registry. Many
improvements were made to the various multimedia DLLs. Lots of bugfixes
were made.

Release focus: Major bugfixes
License: GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL)
Project URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/wine/

Homepage: http://www.winehq.org
Tar/GZ: http://freshmeat.net/redir/wine/11547/url_tgz/Wine-20031016.tar.gz
RPM package: http://freshmeat.net/redir/wine/11547/url_rpm/download
Debian package: http://freshmeat.net/redir/wine/11547/url_deb/download

Regards
Gordon
 
Gordon said:
Wine 20040309 - Emulator of the Windows 3.x and Win32 APIs.

About:
Wine Is Not an Emulator. It is an alternative implementation of the Windows
3.x and Win32 APIs. Wine provides both a development toolkit (Winelib) for
porting legacy Windows sources to Unix and a program loader, allowing
unmodified Windows 3.1/95/NT binaries to run under Intel Unixes. Wine does
not require Microsoft Windows, as it is a completely alternative
implementation consisting of 100% Microsoft-Free code, but it can
optionally use native system DLLs if they are available.

Changes:
The winegcc tool was greatly improved, and is now used to build Wine
itself. VxDs are now separate libraries for better modularity.
Improvements and simplifications were made to the drive configuration. A
new setupapi INF script was added to create the initial registry. Many
improvements were made to the various multimedia DLLs. Lots of bugfixes
were made.

Release focus: Major bugfixes
License: GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL)
Project URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/wine/

Homepage: http://www.winehq.org
Tar/GZ: http://freshmeat.net/redir/wine/11547/url_tgz/Wine-20031016.tar.gz
RPM package: http://freshmeat.net/redir/wine/11547/url_rpm/download
Debian package: http://freshmeat.net/redir/wine/11547/url_deb/download
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It would be nice if Wine could somehow make Windows drivers work in
Linux. That would be the killing stroke.
 
Gordon said:
Wine 20040309 - Emulator of the Windows 3.x and Win32 APIs.

About:
Wine Is Not an Emulator. It is an alternative implementation of the Windows
3.x and Win32 APIs. Wine provides both a development toolkit (Winelib) for
porting legacy Windows sources to Unix and a program loader, allowing
unmodified Windows 3.1/95/NT binaries to run under Intel Unixes. Wine does
not require Microsoft Windows, as it is a completely alternative
implementation consisting of 100% Microsoft-Free code, but it can
optionally use native system DLLs if they are available.
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Isn't this ironic? A Windows emulator on top of Windows.

"Ivan Leo Murray-Smith announced that PE builds of Wine can be found on
SourceForge:

The win32 packages of wine are on sourceforge, you can get them from

http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=6241

or to view the win32 packages only


http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=6241&package_id=112520


So if you're the type who likes to replace Windows system components,
you might find it interesting to replace things like notepad and
comctl32.dll with the Wine equivalents."

dM
 
It would be nice if Wine could somehow make Windows drivers work in
Linux. That would be the killing stroke.
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The modems! If they could get the winmodems to work, that'd be ace.
And Microsoft Office, too! The last time I tried it - about a year ago
- Wine created a really odd thing which should have been the WINDOWS
directory, and basically spewed out a whole load of FIXMEs when I
tried to get Office to run.

So, not there yet; despite the screenshots that they have of Office
ostensibly running merrily on Linux.
 
So, not there yet; despite the screenshots that they have of Office
ostensibly running merrily on Linux.
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CrossOver Office runs Office fairly well. It's a tweaked version of
WINE. There are varying levels of support depending on the version of
Office being used - runs 97 and 2000 supposedly very well, the later
versions less so.

http://www.codeweavers.com/site/products/

Not freeware, however.
 
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