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WINE (Wine Is Not an Emulator) is a compatibility layer that allows some application programs written for Microsoft Windows to run under other operating systems.
Phoronix reports
Following [the March 30] debut of Wine 3.5, a new Wine-Staging release is now available that continues to carry close to one thousand patches on top of the upstream Wine code.
Wine-Staging 3.5 was able to drop some of the patches now that the BCrypt patches have been upstreamed, but they still are dealing with around 950 experimental/testing patches for code not yet in Wine trunk.
There are new patches to Wine-Staging 3.5 to support Implicit MTA, stubbing out some more functions that are needed for the BattlEye game anti-cheat software, adding in a function needed to make Rise of the Tomb Raider happy, fixed 1D texture support, and other fixes and code additions.
Wine-Staging 3.5 binaries for popular Linux distributions are available here.
Phoronix earlier noted
Wine 3.5 continues the recent theme of enabling Vulkan support. Wine 3.5 most notably on this front introduces their new basic Vulkan loader. This means Wine users no longer need to manually install the LunarG SDK for Windows in order to have Vulkan support but rather this custom-developed loader library is shipped by default. This implementation though doesn't support multiple drivers and notably doesn't include support for Vulkan layers, so those needing such features will still want to manually install LunarG's SDK.
The Vulkan library in its current form paired with the recent of Wine's ongoing Vulkan support is good enough for handling Wolfenstein, Doom, and the various Windows VK demos, etc.
Wine 3.5 also includes support for RSA and ECDSA crypto keys, improves its manifest file parser, and supports the Places toolbar within file dialogs.
In its announcement, WINE Headquarters has a list of fixes.
Bugs fixed in 3.5 (total 58)
Some keywords: Empire Earth; Age of Mythology; Mega Man Unlimited; Need for Speed; Rush for Berlin Gold; Battlefield 3 (Origin); Galactic Civilizations III; Starcraft 2; Doom (2016); Grand Theft Auto V; Titanfall2; Wolfenstein 2: The new Colossus; The Witcher 3; Divinity: Original Sin 2.
The list also includes some productivity apps.
See anything in their list that makes you say "That's worth a try"?
(Score: 2) by acid andy on Monday April 02 2018, @12:05PM (3 children)
April Fool's Day and this place is almost dead. And no seasonal humor at all, just the usual trolling.
On the subject of Wine-Staging, I did know about it and the site claims to be "testing area of winehq.org" yet it might gain some trust if winehq.org actually bothered to link to it!
If a cat has kittens, does a rat have rittens, a bat bittens and a mat mittens?
(Score: 2) by takyon on Monday April 02 2018, @12:31PM (2 children)
It was also Easter. [people.com] And a weekend.
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(Score: 2) by acid andy on Monday April 02 2018, @12:49PM (1 child)
Interesting. So are you suggesting that going out or spending time with your family is more important than posting on Soylentnews? Maybe I've got to get out more! ;)
If a cat has kittens, does a rat have rittens, a bat bittens and a mat mittens?
(Score: 2) by Gaaark on Monday April 02 2018, @01:22PM
Moving our daughter into her new apartment, visiting relatives, playing Catan and ticket to ride, bugger bridge...
...busy, busy, busy
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