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Wine gets 64-bit treatment
THE NEWLY-ANNOUNCED and aptly dubbed Wine64 allows native 64-Bit Windows applications to run under Linux – something that wasn't previously possible. WINE may not be an emulator but it does a damn good job of bringing Windows applications to those that prefer Open Sauce, by wrapping the Windows API into a form Linux can understand.
The occasion was landmarked by Maarten Lankhorst, a key WINE developer, who has got the initial "Hello World" application up and running without a glitch.
This feat apparently involved significant changes to the GCC compiler and is very much at a development stage - so you're certainly not going to see any major software releases going gold just yet. The 32-Bit version still has an impressive list of 2D and 3D applications that will run quite happily without ever needing a Windows licence. Yet one more reason to give Ubuntu another shot. µ
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Why only Ubuntu, and not the other Linux distributions ???
Do Mandriva, Fedora, Suse, etc... not support Wine ???
Why only Ubuntu? How about because the "regular" users do not want to see a list of 3 dozen distributions. I develop software for a living, and even I only want to see one. I do not care if another distro is 5% faster. I want a version that is simple and easy to use. Having a "Pick from 100 variants" as step 1 is neither simple nor easy to use. Go Ubuntu Go!
"Yet one more reason to give _Linux_ another shot." would do. I'm a gentoo fan myself.
How about not just linux? Runs on BSD and OSX as well...
Ubuntu is the New Linux. Other distributions will die.
Ubuntu is a flash in the pan. It will soon die.
I have used Wine. It is decent enough to get very old versions of Office working and some decent 3d games/titles.
However, I still think you're better of just running Windows or even VMWare w/ Windows guest if you need to run Windows applications.
I found that while Wine was an interesting stop-gap, a lot of programs that people claimed 'worked' would work, but would also be somewhat unstable.
This is great news, maybe one day we can have a full working react os 64 to go with this. Then the only thing that you have to worry about is which fan boy you are. Because the more Ubuntu grows, the more senile it gets.