All the news that fits, we print.
This is the 336 issue of the Wine Weekly News publication. Its main goal is to highlight how well wine works. 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, 143 posts consumed 216 K. There were 53 different contributors. 28 (52%) posted more than once. 28 (52%) posted last week too. The top 5 posters of the week were:
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| News: Picasa update, lots of typos | Archive | |
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News
Picasa, Google's now famous iPhoto-style application now has a
new version
for
Linux. Picasa is notable because it runs on some native code, but mostly on
windows binaries running with WINE. From what i've read, its gotten some
nice new features and is overall
"snappy
(from wired):
Google has released a beta preview of Picasa 2.7 for Linux adding web album
integration, more editing features and better RAW support. The new beta still
isn't a native app (much of its code comes from the Windows version and runs
via the included Wine components), but it does run considerably faster and
the web album features will be welcome news for Picasa Web users.
[...] Picasa's RAW support "just works" much better than any of the other
options I've tried, and it remains (even as a beta) quite snappy and
stable. So it has come to my attention that there have been several typos of the names of several prominent Winesman. I'de like to apologize to Mr. Julliard in particular :). Will make my best effort to not mess that up. If you notice any such errors please do bring them to my attention. | ||
| Linux Journal: Selling WINE Compatibility | Archive | |
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Wine in the Market
I've started to hear and read things sounding something like "Runs On Windows with WINE". Catchy, ain't it? This was prompted by an article in the Linux Journal recently. As more musicians migrate from Windows to Linux we can expect greater demand for those users' Olde Favorites to run under Linux, either natively or in some other environment (emulation, virtualization). Though that migration is now only a mere trickle, it's been growing and will continue to grow. Some Windows-based audio software developers have already extended their marketing by positioning their programs as viable under Wine . 
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| AppDB Upgrades | Archive | |
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AppDB
Alexander Nicolaysen Sørnes has been rather diligent recently with a handful of user-visible AppDB Changes/Updates. Some of which may be useful to some WWN readers:
[AppDB] Display a note when viewing old test results | ||
| Interview with Mr. Alexandre Julliard | Archive | |||||||||||
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State of WINE
(Thanks Dan Kegel for the link). The beloved leader of WINE, Alexandre Julliard , was recently spotted in a radio interview with LugRadio . Its a 9 minute interview (starting from 2:02) which is fairly entertaining. I'll be reading AJ's postes from now on with his accent in my head! He talks a bit about Wine 1.0 (1 dot 0 as AJ says it), the state of WINE and its progress towards supporting new applications like Office 12 etc. He also talks, in a very comical portion of the interview, about the quality of the Windows API:
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| Wine Begginings | Archive | |
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History
Dan Kegel has done some research to find the early beginnings of WINE; to find where it all began.
winehq.org doesn't seem to have a link to the message
that launched the wine project, so I went looking.
Austin English writes in with some more research:
I found this announcement from Bob Amstadt announcing the mailing
list, this was dated September 16, 1993: Of course this thread wouldn't be complete without Alexandre Julliard also reliving old memories:
The 0.0.2 release was on June 29, and 0.0.1 was about a week before
that IIRC. I don't have the exact date unfortunately.
Tom Wickline writes in with some ancient history he still proudly owns:
I have a copy of iX Magazine ( http://www.heise.de/ix/
) from
July 1994 that has a four page write up about Wine. There is also
a full page interview, Q&A with Bob Amstadt.
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| Photoshop Support | Archive | |
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Photoshop
Dan Kegel writes in with a letter to the community:
Our support for Photoshop 7 and maybe CS
is strong enough for industrial users --
and if it isn't, I'd like to know about it so
we can do something about it. I think its appropriate to re-publish his letter here: Topic: Wine Project looking for Photoshop CS users who want Linux support If you're not a Linux user, or if you don't like the idea of running Photoshop for Windows on Linux, you can stop reading now, this message probably won't be interesting to you. The Wine project is looking for hardcore Photoshop CS or 7 users who use Photoshop professionally, all day, every day, and who are willing to tell us why they can't do that in Linux using Wine yet. We know everybody would like Photoshop CS3 or at least CS2 support, but support for CS2 and CS3 isn't quite ready, so we'd like to focus on our strengths, and support Photoshop 7 and CS excellently. Don't worry, we're also working on the CS2 and CS3 issues. Getting all the 7 and CS issues taken care of builds a stronger foundation for CS2 and CS3. If something doesn't work in Photoshop 7 or CS itself, or your favorite plugin works in Windows with 7 or CS but not in Wine, please let us know how to reproduce the problem. To do that, just reply to this post, or post in the wine-users mailing list, or leave a comment in the wine appdb for Photoshop 7 or CS, or file a bug in the Wine Bugzilla, whichever you're more comfortable with. We'll take it from there; if we can reproduce it, we'll file a bug and see if we can get a wine developer to fix it. Ideally you'd test with the latest release of Wine (currently 0.9.51), but if you're still on a slightly older version, don't sweat it, we'll retest on the latest for you.
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AppDB
*Disclaimer: This list of changes is 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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