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Great News: Wine Runs on Windows Subsystem for Linux

posted by takyon on Friday February 10 2017, @12:45AM   Printer-friendly
from the can-it-run-soylentnewsos dept.

DannyB writes:

According to this, Wine now runs on Windows Subsystem for Linux.

In build 15025, wine64-development runs directly on the Windows Subsystem for Linux.

This will be applauded as a great accomplishment for those who need to run Windows executables.

No word on whether Cygwin will run on Wine running on Windows Subsystem for Linux. Also of interest would be to get Wine to be able to run Windows Subsystem for Linux on Wine.

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  • (Score: 4, Insightful) by Hyperturtle on Friday February 10 2017, @01:21AM

    by Hyperturtle (2824) on Friday February 10 2017, @01:21AM (#465340)

    You know, the person asking why really takes the fun out of pointlessly running XenServer in HyperV to run 2003 to run Virtualbox to run windows 10 to run the windows subsystem for linux to run wine to run Dosbox to play Ultima 7 or something.

    Sometimes, you do not learn important things by only doing what is listed as possible in the manual. You can create stuff that is not supposed to work and bridge it to real networks and potentially save a LOT of time and money doing it the hard way. But if you don't try these things for fun... you never learn how it might work for you so you can leverage parts of that experience later.

    (I think though that I might have a reputation by now for pointless things...if not posts)

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday February 10 2017, @01:37AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday February 10 2017, @01:37AM (#465347)

    Orig AC here: I do have ESX running in VM Fusion - all for the sake of doing it, so I get your point, but still the Q remains: If you have native Win already, why Wine?
    - Someone mentioned security - maybe?

    • (Score: 5, Informative) by tekk on Friday February 10 2017, @02:11AM

      by tekk (5704) Subscriber Badge on Friday February 10 2017, @02:11AM (#465358)

      Backwards compatibility. If you have a really old windows program that won't run on windows, maybe it'll run on wine?

      The real answer is "because we can", though.

  • (Score: 3, Funny) by GreatAuntAnesthesia on Friday February 10 2017, @09:03AM

    by GreatAuntAnesthesia (3275) on Friday February 10 2017, @09:03AM (#465435) Journal

    Your nick seems quite appropriate for this thread. It's emulators all the way down.

  • (Score: 2) by LoRdTAW on Friday February 10 2017, @02:27PM

    by LoRdTAW (3755) on Friday February 10 2017, @02:27PM (#465475) Journal

    It's also a great way to break stuff and discover bugs.