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(2006-10-01) Just to let you know. The purpose of selecting an article is both to point readers to the article and to highlight it to potential contributors. It will remain on the portal for a week or so. The previous selected article was ReactOS. Gronky 22:42, 1 October 2006 (UTC)
Another small comment: ((I noticed someone here was speaking of running Wine on Linux, so I thought of this:)) This article starts out by saying that << "The Wine project aims to allow a PC running a Unix-like operating system and the X Window System to execute programs originally written for Microsoft Windows." >> IMHO, instead of saying "a Unix-like operating system" it should say something like "a POSIX compatible operating system such as Gnu/ Linux". I say this partly because, at http://winehq.org/site/about it says (that Wine is capable of running Windows applications on) [quote:] "Linux and other POSIX compatible operating systems". Just my 0.02, from Mike Schwartz 17:12, 1 November 2006 (UTC)
There is not very much in the winecfg article but the screen shot and the small bit of text could become a sub section in the wine article. So Yes the article could be merged. -- Benjaminevans82 16:47, 19 November 2006 (UTC)
Stub articles (on directly related tools) with little potential of expansion. What do you think? Memmke 09:48, 29 November 2006 (UTC)
There's no distinction made between winecfg (which is an official Wine tool), and the other third party hacks. It should be made clear that these other tools are neither developed nor endorsed by the Wine team. WineTools is explicitly and particularly hated by Wine developers. 129.128.210.68 19:32, 23 May 2007 (UTC)
i dont understand if wine can run games, music or video editing applications such as warcraft, pro tools, acid pro, sony vegas et cetera...can someone explain, in detail, which windows apps run good and which dont? -- Alex Ov Shaolin 04:36, 7 December 2006 (UTC)
Allan Registos: I have Intel PC 2.8Ghz HT processor, 1.2GbRAM and 128MB Nvidia video card. Dual boot Ubuntu and Windows. I've run World of Warcraft in Windows with this resolution 1024x768 all other options at their highest level, it works perfectly but a little sluggish. I've run WoW in Wine with Ubuntu with the same resolution and the same level of tweaking, I have found that WoW runs faster on wine than in Windows.
Hi. I noticed Wine was listed under four letter acronyms but is it really a acronym? I thought it was just the full name of the software? Ad0500 11:44, 7 January 2007 (UTC)
If this makes any sense, it's not an emulator in the sense of virtual machinery. It does not show a desktop from windows, there is no program to start up, it is simply integrated into the Linux system as a service (sorry if I'm using wrong terms, I'm just explaining how I understand it). It does emulate windows in the sense that it emulates its libraries, but it is not an actual windows emulator. Also, besides the acronym for Wine, I was under the impression that it was a merge of Windows & Emulator. Since a windows-based application is labeled by a "win", I figured it was a bit like WinE, or Windows Emulator. Whatever, though. -- DEMONIIIK 22:46, 4 May 2007 (UTC)
What about Direct X compatibility. How campatible is WINE with DirectX? Kc4 20:43, 16 January 2007 (UTC)
The article does not mention the lack of support for 64bit OS, and that wine must (AFAIK) run in a 32bit userspace. It could be really interesting to know the reason of this limitation and if that will change in future version of wine. Freevox 07:35, 28 April 2007 (UTC)
This article is missing an important way to use WINE. When I was on windows, I was extremely cautious about which executables, I downloaded off the internet and ran. Consequently, trying out new programs was a time consuming process because I had to read reviews, google and other websites to be sure what I was downloading was actually safe and virus free. Then I ran a virus scan on it. Now, it's like Wine has opened up a whole new world of WINDOWS software too me. I've configured wine to only allow access to certain folders on the hard drive, so I know that I can run any questionable executable with impunity. It's really made discovering new applications so much faster. Add to that, I can run shareware applications indefinitely. At the very worst, all I have to do is delete the .wine directory and, just like that: It's like a whole new Windows installation.
In ubuntuforums somebody were able to validate Defender in Ubuntu:: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=475709 -- 208.104.151.215 20:27, 19 June 2007 (UTC)
"The project probably originated in discussions on Usenet ..." IMHO a sentence including the word "probably" doesn't belong in a encyclopedia like Wikipedia. Either the project originated on Usenet or it didn't. If it's uncertain it shouldn't be included at all especially since there's no source. Why is it more likely that it originated on Usenet as opposed to some other place? Has someone asked the original authors about the projects origins? Pafcu 19:22, 26 June 2007 (UTC)
I know Wine has a registry editor. Shouldn't we give that a mention?
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Someone over here: Talk:Globally Unique Identifier#List_of_common_GUID.27s.3F argues that some of the GUID's Wine contains are, or could be, illegal numbers under U.S. law. I don't know anything about U.S. law, so I'm dropping this here, because I thought this was a likely place to get an answer. And yes, I know that the GUID's are just as part of the API as the various function names are, none of which are, AFAIK illegal to quote or cause licensing restrictions to be enforced upon use. But someone else says that doesn't matter. Anyway, I'd like your opinion on this, especially if you have experience in the field of intellectual property law as it relates to application programming interfaces. Shinobu 21:42, 24 August 2007 (UTC)
Someone removed a link to http://wiki.winehq.org/BenchMarks. Is it really inappropriate? Roman V. Odaisky 18:30, 25 October 2007 (UTC)
I think it may be a good idea to update the articles of software that works on wine, so that instead of stating that it requires Windows, Mac or Linux etc... It should also mention Wine if it works well in it, possibly with version numbers or "(with some problems)" if necessary?
What do you guys think of this -- Happysmileman ( talk) 19:03, 16 November 2007 (UTC)
Might be interesting to add this: http://www.winehq.org/pipermail/wine-devel/2007-November/060538.html
Not any more it doesn't. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 80.175.250.218 ( talk) 16:33, 22 November 2007 (UTC)
Hello! All of copyrighted screenshots can be replaced by other free ones. Can someone who uses Wine take some free screenshots? -- O s a m a K 16:00, 9 February 2008 (UTC)
I phrased it this way because (1) graphical programs do require X11, which should be in the intro (as Unix-like is) (2) console programs don't require X11 (try it yourself and see - we use it this way at work). Suitable rephrasings are of course welcome, but it needs noting somewhere, and correctly - David Gerard ( talk) 21:28, 1 March 2008 (UTC)
Is this notable enough to stick in the history or somewhere on the article? (See winehq.org for version 0.9.58) -- 76.204.101.143 ( talk) 03:08, 24 March 2008 (UTC)
While the name sometimes appears in the forms "WINE" and "wine", the project developers have agreed to standardize on the form "Wine".[citation needed]
A citation can be found in the FAQ: http://wiki.winehq.org/FAQ#head-8b4fbbe473bd0d51d936bcf298f5b7f0e8d25f2e
213.126.97.225 ( talk) 13:06, 28 March 2008 (UTC)
Talks about wine back around mid-2007 can some one from wine provide a progress update for this section. Gioto ( talk) 12:54, 5 May 2008 (UTC)
I find it strange that nothing is said about Google... Havent they contributed some fixes to Wine so they could run their Picasa (with Wine (software)) on Linux? And.. didn't they help get Photoshop CS2 to run (or run better) on Wine (software)? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 193.191.9.22 ( talk) 12:14, 6 May 2008 (UTC)
MS Word 2003 does not work with the current wine version. It requires using old wine version, which is rather inconvenient for most users. Putting screenshot of Word running under wine could be disinformation. I propose to remove the screenshot. See the link: http://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=version&iId=2735 —Preceding unsigned comment added by 83.5.178.116 ( talk) 17:30, 21 May 2008 (UTC)
In re-writing, updating and correcting the data held within the infobox, I had to start looking at: "In how many languages does Wine get released?" (This article deals with official Wine, not private/secret/non-LGPL compilations made from the source code, not shared with the Wine team, and their leader:"Alexandre Julliard has led the project since 1994.") At first sight, looking at wiki.winehq.org I concluded that Wine is written exclusively in English (not counting the coding in C), and then translated only into 3 languages Português, Deutsch & Spanish. Then Google returned Some Japanese translations implying more than one version of Japanese, then Bugs fixed in 1.0-rc4 which said they were adding, updating and fixing translations for (18 languages total):
My question, posed so that the article and it's infobox may be complete, is:"In how many languages does Wine get released?" .... or would that question truly take too long to investigate for such a large project and should we just put multi-lingual in the article and never talk, nor think, of creating more work for ourselves ever again (attempted to be written while only sounding serious and never sarcastic, you try doing that these days). -- 202.168.102.96 ( talk) 03:31, 15 July 2008 (UTC)
This article says that Windows Genuine Advantage does not recognise Wine as genuine windows, what might be of interest to some is that WGA doesn't recognise Windows 98 as genuine Windows either. Jeffz1 ( talk) 10:25, 18 July 2008 (UTC)
The irony in this is in order to download DirectX 9.0c redistributable for Windows 98 (still supported by DirectX 9.0c) you need to run WGA. Jeffz1 ( talk) 05:57, 21 July 2008 (UTC)
I was able to find my own usage statistics. I published them in this email to the mailing list, and they seem good, making it to the Wine Weekly News: http://winehq.org/?issue=348#Wine%27s%20popularity
In the interest of not posting my own original research, however, it'd be best if someone else integrated them into the article. Thank you! Scott Ritchie ( talk) 12:05, 12 August 2008 (UTC)
I was directed here by another wiki page which claimed a game had a "silver rating" for Wine compatibility. But the Wine page doesn't describe what that means. Should it?-- Per Abrahamsen ( talk) 15:53, 31 August 2008 (UTC)
Agree —Preceding unsigned comment added by 78.148.130.14 ( talk) 19:37, 2 September 2008 (UTC)
Was taken from wihehq app dbase (Platinum, gold and silver) - I think it is good to name few applications so the user can see it supports some cutting edge software. Maybe a better name for the section would be suitable.-- Kozuch ( talk) 16:38, 27 December 2008 (UTC)
It might be nice to have a history of how the name "Wine" went from meaning "Windows Emulator" to "Wine is Not an Emulator". I did some poking around on this a long time ago. Here are the results, with references, if someone would like to clean them up and add them to the article.
I believe the first suggestion of the "not an emulator" name was in this usenet post. This was in 1993, prompted by concern over trademark issues with the name "Windows Emulator".
In this post, Bob Amstadt responds to the above post with more interesting history:
By 1997, the "not an emulator" interpretation was in use, but as an alternative, according to the Wine FAQ from late 1997:
The dropping of calling Wine an emulator happened between releases 981108 and 981211. The 981108 release notes said:
The 981211 release notes said:
The dropping of "Windows Emulator" seems to have been for two reasons. One was that Wine could be used for more than just taking a Windows binary and running it on Unix. It could also be linked with code compiled on Unix, to give a native Unix binary port of a Windows program. The other was that most users were only familiar with emulators that emulated hardware, which tended to be slow. Wine might get an undeserved reputation of slowness because of that, so they stopped calling it an emulator. I have been unable to locate the references I had to support this paragraph. I think they were posts in comp.emulators.ms-windows.wine from around 1997 or 1998, if someone better at Googling than I wants to try to track them down. Tim.the.bastard ( talk) 18:53, 14 February 2009 (UTC)