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http://www.wine-reviews.net – By Scott Gilbertson Wine, the project that lets Linux users run Windows apps within Linux, has released a major update that fixes a number of bugs and includes 64-bit support. Wine 1.2 includes a new set of icons, a number of fixes for video rendering improving Windows gaming and better font anti-aliasing and handling of desktop link files. Wine has always been a controversial app in the Linux community with purists claiming Wine is exactly what Linux doesnt need a Windows crutch that just undermines claims that Linux can do anything Windows can do. Rather than re (Software)

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By Scott Gilbertson Wine, the project that lets Linux users run Windows apps within Linux, has released a major update that fixes a number of bugs and includes 64-bit support. Wine 1.2 includes a new set of icons, a number of fixes for video rendering improving Windows gaming and better font anti-aliasing and handling of desktop link files.

Wine, the project that lets Linux users run Windows apps within Linux, has released a major update that fixes a number of bugs and includes 64-bit support. Wine 2.1 includes a new set of icons, a number of fixes for video rendering – improving Windows gaming – and better font anti-aliasing and handling of desktop link files.

In a recent development release 1.5.14, Wine has announced a number of new features. Wine is a popular application for Linux, which provides a Windows compatibility layer. It has been used to run games, applications, and a number of tools which are unique to Windows.

Wine 1.1.44 Released 3 years 6 weeks ago

The Wine development release 1.1.44 is now available. Whats new in this release:

Alexandre Julliard announced on November 9 a new development version of the Wine app, which brings assorted bug fixes and improvements.As usual, the number of new features and bug fixes in the development version of Wine (Wine is Not An Emulator)is quite large, even if we don’t take into account the important changes.

On April 26, Alexandre Julliard has announced yet another development release of the awesome Wine software, which can be used to emulate Windows apps on Linux.

This Article was written by "Christopher Smart" for linux-mag.com

The inability to play the latest off the shelf commercial games has been a thorn in the side of Linux for a long time. With companies such as Valve starting to embrace other platforms, will that be the catalyst Linux needs to become a first class citizen?

Wine 1.1.29 3 years 41 weeks ago

The latest Wine development release 1.1.29 is now available for download. The new features in this release includes the following:

Improved Gecko integration by using Wine’s network layers. Use of external libmpg123 for mp3 decoding. Support for JPEG and PNG formats in WindowsCodecs. Many regression test fixes for Win64 and Windows 7. Various bug fixes.

Download: [ Wine 1.1.29 ]

I know that normally you would need to go into the Control Panel in Windows, but seeing as this is Linux, I don't think that will work. I was trying to install the .NET framework for a game I wanted to play. Now, I know people say that PlayOnLinux is much better, but the game's site said to use Wine (they don't have native Linux compatibility yet), so I chose to use Wine.