Wine 2.0 released • Hacker News Board

Re: Wine 2.0 released

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Post by Fnoord » Thu, Jan 26, 2017, 6:43 PM UTC

coldpie wrote: post #307

a3_nm wrote: post #295

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Interestingly, CodeWeavers appears to be part of the reason in 2002 why Wine changed its license from MIT to LGPL. They were concerned about the fact that CodeWeaver's fork of Wine was proprietary. (Sources: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wine_(software)#History https://www.winehq.org/pipermail/wine-devel/2002-February/00... ) CodeWeaver's Wine variant still seems to be proprietary according to Wikipedia -- I wonder w…

CodeWeavers's usage of Wine and other open-source projects has always been open-source. You can download our Wine fork source from our website[1]. We do use a small amount of closed-source glue to provide our installation magic and desktop integration. Wine switched to LGPL due to other proprietary forks. [1] https://www.codeweavers.com/products/more-information/source

> Wine switched to LGPL due to other proprietary forks.

Specifically, WineX aka Cedega

Re: Wine 2.0 released

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Post by rijoja » Thu, Jan 26, 2017, 7:44 PM UTC

littleweep wrote: post #30

rijoja wrote: post #26

This brings me back to the early days of my Linux usage. I've always been fascinated by this project. My very nerdy dream has always been to try to contribute to it somehow. How hard is it to get in to the community?

The beauty is you can contribute in any way. If you're a web designer, you can help with their site. If you're a technical writer, you can help improve documentation. You don't need to contribute to the core codebase to contribute to the project at large.

Yeah really I would like to dive in at the deep end of the pool. But I've never had the time or the energy I suppose.

Re: Wine 2.0 released

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Post by javiramos » Sat, Jan 28, 2017, 11:59 PM UTC

coldpie wrote: post #308

javiramos wrote: post #279

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Does anyone know how well Wine works with peripherals? I have a Windows device and driver+library that I would like to use with Linux. I am currently using a VM but would consider using Wine to simplify my install.

Depends on what kind of peripheral you're talking about. If the OS supports it, and we have code to use that kind of device (e.g. joysticks, storage devices), then it should "just work." If you need to install Windows-only drivers to get your device to work, then it likely won't. We do have a guy working on getting raw HID support to underlie our device handling, which will improve things like USB device support and…

Thanks for the feedback. The device I am looking to connect required Windows-only drivers that were custom developed. I will shy away from Wine and stick to my VM.

Re: Wine 2.0 released

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Post by shubb » Sun, Jan 29, 2017, 7:49 PM UTC

pimeys wrote: post #289

shubb wrote: post #231

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Also, last time I tried, the virtual graphics cards in the vm were much less powerful than a fully drivered up raw graphics card even on Linux, unless I was doing something wrong?

This has actually changed. A friend of mine plays all modern games with sometimes even better FPS using the PCI passthrough in QEMU[1], I have to say it's a pretty impressive setup and I've played Witcher 3 with Arch Linux + QEMU + Windows 7, solid 60fps with ultra graphics. [1] https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/PCI_passthrough_via_OVM...

Very bookmarked!