![]() Immediately after installation, and the Internet Explorer beta fails as Instance, doesn't get past the the installer. ![]() In testing some other big and complexĪpplications, there was little joy to be had. And if your app is simple/small enough, there is a good chance it will work perfectly."Īnd that seems accurate. Wine 1.2.1 and Wine 1.3.5, a few applications installed and ran without anyĪnd CEO Jeremy White says, " we've hit a point where you have a better than 50/50 chance of your app working. While others run only with several tweaks. Some applications and games run flawlessly, Wine has been a useful tool for many users, but its adoption and influence on the spread of Linux has been fairly limited.Īfter nearly 17 years of development, running Windows applications on That hasn't quite worked out as planned, though. Assuming an application runs under Wine, it would even have advantages over Windows because one could leverage the strong points of Unix/Linux with a popular Windows application. The theory being that if users could run Windows applications more or less flawlessly on Linux, it would encourage people to switch. Wine was once widely considered a very important piece of software for the success of Linux on the desktop. A look at the most recent vintage, however, shows that the project still has a long way to go before it's ready to tackle any and all Windows applications. Like its namesake, Wine has continued to improve with age. The Wine Project recently released the stable 1.2.1 and unstable 1.3.5 branches with a number of fixes and new features. ![]() Despite theĬhallenges and competition, Wine still is still proving successful as a Less relevant to users in the face of virtualization. Up with changes to Microsoft's platforms. One one hand, Wine faces a moving target in keeping ![]() Project is still chipping away at being compatible with the majority of The Wine project doesn't get the kind of attention it used to, but the This article was contributed by Joe 'Zonker' Brockmeier.
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