Wine to hit 1.0, on June 6, its Fifteenth Anniversary

[Marik]

Fifteen years ago, a group of Linux developers who wished Linux had some of the Applications for Windows, started developing a program that would allow Windows based app’s to be on Linux, its called Wine. Fifteen years later, Wine is extremely popular in the Linux community and has thousands of users, and in a few month’s time (June 6 to be exact), Wine will hit 1.0.

Wine 1.0 brings four major apps to be supported, Photoshop CS2, PowerPoint Viewer 97 and 2003, and Word Viewer 97 and 2003, and Excel Viewer 97 and 2003. However Wine already has 1,229 applications that run and install out of the box, it’s these four Applications that are probably the most popular and needed apps in the Windows OS, and with no extensively alternative that works as well in the Linux world.

The developers also noted that with each new program added, hours of testing are required to iron out the bugs.

You can download the latest Wine release now; 0.9.58, for a multitude of Linux variations in the link below.

Source: Neowin

Download: Latest version of Wine

[demonon]

I really am anxious to this programme.

Linux + the ability to use Windows apps = Perfect OS!

[HATE9X]

this makes me wanna go linux so bad.. well not only this, but generally linux is freaking stable & everything, i'm tired of windows fucking up every 6 months or less.. or more..

guess i gotta dualboot for games & apps tho.. feels it'd get a bit complicated..

wish game devs would follow ID and would rls their games for linux too.. ... . . .. ..