| Title | WINE 1.7.55 Gets PulseAudio Driver and Better Microsoft Office 2013 Support | |
| Date | Saturday November 28 2015, @04:58PM | |
| Author | cmn32480 | |
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| from the don't-forget-the-cheese dept. | ||
If your previous try with WINE wasn't all you'd hoped for, the additions to 1.7.55 may include just what you need.
Softpedia reports
WINE is an acronym for Wine Is Not an Emulator. [...] It's considered to be a compatibility layer in the same way you will find compatibility settings in modern [versions of Windows that allow you to runs apps that are only natively compatible with earlier versions of that OS].
[...] The improvements made to Wine are not usually all that transparent for regular users, as the developers write their changelogs mostly for other devs or at least for people who are watching the project a lot closer.
[...] There are two different changelogs for each Wine release, one that deals with the application itself, and the other one that reveals what changes and improvements have been made to support various apps and games.
According to the changelog, the PulseAudio driver has been added, various fixes for Microsoft Office 2013 support have been introduced, more work has been done for the Web Services DLL, more fixes for the latest C runtime version have been implemented, the Makefile generation has been improved, and other bug fixes have been implemented.
The list of supported games and apps has expanded with the following titles: Adobe Premiere 6, Adobe AIR / Adobe Media Player, Resolume Avenue 3.3.2, Cubis Gold 2, ArcSoft PhotoStudio, PowerDVD 10, Freelancer, Dungeons and Dragons, Star Trek Birth of the Federation, Guild Wars 2, Risen 2, Tomb Raider 2013, Sacred 2 Gold, valgrind, CCleaner, Emerge Desktop 6.1.3, Microsoft Office 2007, and numerous others.
Softpedia also notes WINE 1.7.x Branch Closed; WINE 1.8 to Launch Soon
The plan is to have a single stable version once a year, but it remains to be seen how this will work out for them.
[...] Until we have a chance to try the new model, we can't really say anything about whether it's right or wrong. What we do know is that Wine 1.8 has been announced, and it's coming in just a month or so.
1.7.55 is the last Version of the 1.7.x series.[1] It's likely to see Wine 1.8 until end of this year. Until then we'll have weekly release candidates. Please give them as much testing as you can, you're also welcome to improve translations in case your language isn't perfect yet".
[...] As a side note, the Wine developers have recently also reported that they managed to port the framework on Android, which is a great step forward, but they don't see a way of making money off that just yet.
[1] Rehash removes the ASCII whitespace in links.
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