Wine 8.6 Released With Bundled Musl Libc Math Library

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Wine 8.6 Released With Bundled Musl Libc Math Library

Wine 8.6 is out as the newest bi-weekly development release of this open-source software to enjoy Windows games and applications on Linux and other platforms...

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Wine-8.6-Released

[kn00tcn]

Wine 8.6 is out as the newest bi-weekly development release

heh...

[mrg666]

I have never installed/needed Wine. But Proton is there in Steam for games. Is this a trend or I am just an anomaly?

[silverhikari]

I have never installed/needed Wine. But Proton is there in Steam for games. Is this a trend or I am just an anomaly?

i am a bit confused about what you are asking but proton is a modified version of wine with additions and changes by valve and others to improve compatibility with games as wine is meant for more general things

[dark-star]

> ...as well as helping with a future FPU emulation library

Wait what? What systems that Wine runs on don't have an FPU? Other than some microprocessors or 20+ year old CPUs I cannot think of any, and running Wine on one of those has definitely worse problems than missing FPU support...

[ryao]

I have never installed/needed Wine. But Proton is there in Steam for games. Is this a trend or I am just an anomaly?

Wine is the majority of proton.

[ridge]

I have never installed/needed Wine. But Proton is there in Steam for games. Is this a trend or I am just an anomaly?

Not really. I mean, you are still using Wine even if you haven't explicitly installed it system-wide. Proton is a collection of programs, and Wine is one of those applications in that bundle.
I personally use Wine to play games and don't have Steam, I think that's more of an anomaly at this point.

[mrg666]

I am only worried that Wine development will be too dependent on Proton if most people are like me. I would love to see Microsoft replacing the whole Windows development with Wine on top of Linux in the end. But that sounds like fantasy right now. But who could have guessed a decade ago Windows would have WSL one day.

[theuserbl]

Why don't Microsoft acquire CodeWeavers?
They have acquired Xamarin, which have had written its own .NET called "Mono" and supported it.
But why don't they acquire the WINE suppoter CodeWeavers?

Then Microsoft could create a CrossOver with original Windows Fonts, original Windows graphics and libraries with original Windows code.

[mirmirmir]

Then Microsoft could create a CrossOver with original Windows Fonts, original Windows graphics and libraries with original Windows code.

And where's the most important thing? You know, 🤑🤑