WINE goes Beta
Tuesday, October 25th, 2005Wine is the Windows Emulator. It is an Open Source implementation of the Windows API, on *nix systems like FreeBSD, Linux and Solaris. It will allow you to run Windows programs without the MS Windows.
After roughly 12 years of work, the Wine Project is about to take its widely used Windows translation layer to a place it has not been in all that time: beta.
Wine Project leader Alexandre Julliard, who has worked on the software nearly since its beginning in 1993 and maintained it since 1994, said interview yesterday that the beta release is “a matter of days away.” He has since updated that forecast and said it would be released on Tuesday, October 25th.
“We are currently in code freeze for the release,” Julliard said. “It should happen sometime next week.” (more)
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These guys have an almost impossible task, trying to catch up with MS. I am sure every so often MS tweaks the API making it that much harder. Hopefully it won’t take another 12 year before a release version comes out.
