wine users - Oct 2008 - Digg's wine-1.1.6 announcement

FYI:

http://digg.com/linux_unix/Wine_1_1_6_Released

In case anyone wants to chime in with impressions.

On Fri, Oct 10, 2008 at 2:46 PM, Dan Kegel <dank at kegel.com>
wrote:
> http://digg.com/linux_unix/Wine_1_1_6_Released
Wow, that got a lot of diggs, 761.

My favorite comments:

1. It's amazing to see how far WINE has come over the years. It's more
Win32 compatible than Vista in some respects.

2. I've actually had two games that were _made_ for Windows which I
couldn't get to run on XP that run on Linux using WINE... go figure

3. We know Google submits many bug fixes for Wine, and it is evident
by the new Picasa V 3.0 beta which is lightning fast and puts Mono
based application F-spot to shame.

4. I love Wine because it allows me to play Guild Wars on Linux! Now I
need Wine to work with Hello Kitty Online.  (I replied to this one
with instructions on how to use wine to view hellokitty.com :-)

5. Why can't other projects move as fast as this one? I really can't
believe just how fast WINE is being developed right now.

- Dan

I think you misunderstood her request regarding #4.  Hellokitty.com can be
accessed from native firefox + flash, without need for Wine.

What site she's actually referring to:  hellokittyonline.com is one of those
virtual community windows apps that the kids are so into nowadays.  The last
thing in the app database
(http://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=version&iId=12125) for it
is from the closed beta, but apparently parts of it (like updating) are still
broken.

-J