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Comment Re:uses? (Score 3, Informative) 97

Yes, Wine really is coming along nicely. It's been a very long hard fight, but an amazing range of things work, and it's just going to keep getting better.

Note that Wine has a sponsor - CodeWeavers - and we have collectively dumped at least $20 Million on Wine through the years. Wine is hard.

We do all of that that $59.95 at a time, with the support of people who understand what we do and who choose to support us. I think this is amazing and powerful and wonderful, and I am deeply grateful to everyone who does support us.

I just wish more people knew the details and understood why PlayOnLinux and stock Wine work so well these days. My ducky demise will not be in vain if just one more person discovers CrossOver goodness :-).

Cheers,
Jeremy

Microsoft

Submission + - Microsoft purges download area of everything pre-Vista? (microsoft.com) 1

dkegel writes: Over the last couple weeks, many downloads at microsoft.com related to older versions of Windows have been silently deleted. For instance, Service Pack 2 for Windows XP, which used to be at www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=28, is no longer there.

It seems that a) Microsoft is getting quite serious about ending even any hint of support for end-of-life operating systems, and b) the era of being able to download individual fixes via the web is ending; the future is automated updates.

Wine

Submission + - Jeremy White Whines About Wine Whiners (codeweavers.com)

jeremy_white writes: The Humble Indie Bundle V launched over the weekend, and it's been largely a great success. But there was a small but vocal group of people that hated on Wine. I was dismayed to see that the comments on Slashdot seemed to echo that bias; I thought the average Slashdot reader knew better. So I've written a diatribe^H^H^H^H^H^H^H blog post to explain why I think they're wrong to Whine about Wine.

Submission + - LA Times defends software patent troll (latimes.com)

dkegel writes: "Remember PanIP, the outfit that was suing e-commerce sites back in 2002 and dropped their suit after the Patent Office invalidated the patents? Well, the LA Times has written a sympathetic story casting him as the underdog.
It seems that the LA columnist isn't aware of the debate over software patents.

I emailed him just now explaining it a bit, linked to ./'s articles and wikipedia's articles on the lawsuits, and suggested he do a followup article showing the other side of the story.

(A few more emails to the guy might help drive the point home, but please don't send him hate mail, he's just a journalist trying to do his job, and vitriol would probably make him think that the Evil Conspiracy Against The Inventor was real and still active.)"

Comment Mono does work with wine... (Score 1) 362

Mono + wine, of late, were starting to be able to run some of the .net apps associated with games. For instance, if you ask it very nicely, mono + wine can run the Need For Speed World launcher/patcher (and was able to do so before .net + wine could). There are lots of bugs left to fix in mono before it can handle more .net 3-era apps, let alone WPF apps, which would be Really Hard.

Comment TFA is BS; Ubuntu is pushing Linux forward nicely (Score 5, Interesting) 778

Really? Bruce Byfield is upset that Ubuntu switched its /etc/init.d handler to upstart? That's an awfully picky thing to complain about, especially since other distros did, too. Switching to the Unity shell is a bit edgy, but hey, it's been a while since there's actually been competition in desktops, we could use some. Most people long ago picked Gnome or KDE, and those projects have to some extent been coasting. Perhaps Unity will light a fire under Gnome like Chrome did for Firefox...

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