All the news that fits, we print.
This is the 343 issue of the Wine Weekly News publication. Its main goal is to sound the trumpet and alarms and bells and whistles and get people pumped and excited and ready and motivated for Wine 1.0! It also serves to inform you of what's going on around Wine. Wine is an open source implementation of the Windows API on top of X and Unix. Think of it as a Windows compatibility layer. Wine does not require Microsoft Windows, as it is a completely alternative implementation consisting of 100% Microsoft-free code, but it can optionally use native system DLLs if they are available. You can find more info at www.winehq.org
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This week, 435 posts consumed 623 K. There were 113 different contributors. 61 (53%) posted more than once. 23 (20%) posted last week too. The top 5 posters of the week were:
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| News: Wine 0.9.57 Released | ||
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News
Wine 0.9.57 was released last week:
Wine 0.9.57 was released today, with the following main changes:
Thanks to some big bugzilla cleanups we now have a list of closed bugs with each release! These provide some interesting insight into the process and goings on of developing Wine. Jim on the Wine Forum has pointed out that NVIDIA mentioned wine in one of their recent change logs, an interesting find!
nVidia has release a new Linux driver (169.12) which could be of interest to some Wine users. From the release notes:
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| Translations within WINE | Archive | |
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Translations
There has been an interesting effort to maintain good translations of some of the text within Wine. Mikolaj Zalewski has been maintaining a page with lots of information on this process. If you would like to help out in this effort feel free to post on wine-devel with an offer and I'm certain there are peopel who are willing to help you get started! | ||
| Adobe Air on Linux with Wine | Archive | |
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While Adobe has been working on porting Adobe Air to linux some folk over at Ubuntu Unleashed have been trying to get it to work through Wine. DownloadSquad has an interesting article covering Ubuntu Unleashed's efforts.
We tested some of our favorite applications and found that while they all appeared to install correctly, only a handful are actually usable.
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| Approaching Wine 1.0 | Archive | |
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Wine 1.0
Dan Kegel, the Wine 1.0 release manager, has begun to put together concrete plans for the big release of Wine 1.0.
I've updated https://wiki.winehq.org/WineReleaseCriteria
to be a bit more final. I recommend checking out those two links for the most up to date information about when 1.0 will be released. Alexandre Julliard had one comment to add which will likely affect the plans slightly: We need a code freeze and stabilization period before the release. My thinking is that we should have a 1.0rc1 release, probably sometime in May, and from that point on only accept small obvious fixes. Then we'd have rc2, rc3, etc. as needed until the bug list gets small enough. And by rc1 (or even earlier) any bug that requires more than a small simple patch would be deferred to 1.1.0. Dan followed through and made the above changes, the release plan currently looks as follows:
# 0.9.58 - 28 March 2008 Additionally there will be a code freeze for rc1 and rc2 during which only bug fix and maintenance patches will be accepted Dan Kegel has also sent in a post asking the Wine community to vote for 1.0 bugs so they can be prioritized for 1.0. | ||
| Viruses in Wine? | Archive | |
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Viruses
http://wearenixed.blogspot.com/2008/03/you-only-know-good-when-youve-seen-bad.html "I had set her up with a perfect Wine install. She had a bit of software that needed to run under wine and I had shown her how to install within that environment. Apparently, I wasn't specific enough. It never occurred to Paula that the .exe programs she had used on her XP machine were the vehicles for many of her present viruses. To her, it was perfectly fine to use those same .exe's...after all, she was in Linux, right? I got there within the same hour and checked her machine. Yep...Windows viruses will reside and create the same havoc within a Wine environment. Now, I've seen it with my own eyes. This time I reinstalled for her and made sure I found all the infected .exe's on the Windows side and deleted them." There was then some interesting discussion on the mailing list about how to keep wine secure, about the interesting fact that viruses _should_ work in Wine. Its best for compatibility of Wine emulates as many of the bugs from Windows as possible. As far as security goes the verdict was that running Wine as a normal user for normal applications is fine. However if you are intentionally bench-testing something malicious a virtual machine is the safest route. Again, never run Wine as root! . | ||
| Wine User Guide | Archive | |
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Wine User Guide
Since the new forum went up there has been a lot of interaction between the Wine developers and the everyday Wine users -- an interaction which hasn't really happened much before in a formal manner outside of #winehq. This has brought up some rather interesting issues (read: small flame wars) and some interesting ideas for improving wine and overall an increased feeling that Wine should help out its users. This, combined with the impending release of Wine 1.0 has encouraged many to begin to shore up some loose ends; one of which being the Wine User Guide:
Hi,
It would be a great help if some users could go through the guide and comment on anything that's either too confusing, outdated or otherwise lacking it would be a great help towards Wine 1.0! | ||
| Summer of Code Acceptance | Archive | |
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GSoC
Good news! It appears Wine has qualified and been accepted by the powers-that-be over at Google and we are now officially a mentoring organization for the 2008 Google Summer of Code . Maarten Lankhorst sends in the good news:
Hi all,
I think he sounds excited :). As you may know by now Maarten is our head organizer for GSoC this year. Thus far wine has a reasonalby lengthy list of ideas for student projects this summer, including the following:
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AppDB / BugZilla
*Temporary Disclaimer: For the better part of the month of January Wine's bugzilla will be going through an annual triage and cleanup. While the following statistics are still meaningful, (perhaps even moreso than otherwise) they are very skewed from normal Wine BugZilla activity.
*Disclaimer: These lists of changes are automatically generated by information entered into the AppDB. These results are subject to the opinions of the users submitting application reviews. The Wine community does not guarantee that even though an application may be upgraded to 'Gold' or 'Platinum' in this list, that you will have the same experience and would provide a similar rating.
Updates by App Maintainers
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