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931 WINE open-source and Linux related news articles on Phoronix since 2006.

Proposed Reflink Support Would Provide Big Space Savings For Wine

When sticking to Wine recommendations of maintaining separate prefixes per-application, a lot of system files get duplicated for each game/application and in turn leading to significant bloat. With the current state of Wine it can mean hundreds of megabytes per prefix in duplicated files. But proposed reflink patches for Wine are aiming to cut down on this severe bloat.

25 July 2021 - Reflink For Wine - 86 Comments
Wine 6.0.1 Pops Open Support For The Apple M1, Dozens Of Fixes

While Wine's bi-weekly development releases are normally in good shape and suitable for Linux gamers and other enthusiasts wanting to run Windows games and applications on Linux or macOS, Wine 6.0.1 is out this week for those sticking to the yearly stable releases with follow-on point releases.

8 June 2021 - Wine 6.0.1 - 4 Comments
Wine-Staging 6.10 Ships With Just Under 600 Patches Atop Upstream Wine

It's been a few releases since there has been much in the way of new additions to Wine-Staging worth talking about. This staging/experimental version of Wine has at some points carried 700+ patches over upstream Wine but with not many new patches introduced recently while the flow of patches from staging to upstream Wine continuing, at this point its down to "only" 571 patches. With today's Wine-Staging 6.10 there are also some new improvements incorporated into this build.

5 June 2021 - Wine-Staging 6.10 - 3 Comments
Wine 6.6 Released With Better Plug & Play Driver Support

Wine 6.6 is out as the open-source project's first release of April for running Windows games and applications primarily on Linux and macOS platforms. With Wine 6.6 comes more feature work that will ultimately be incorporated into the Wine 7.0 release due out in early 2022.

9 April 2021 - Wine 6.6 - 33 Comments
Wine's Project Leader Has Given A Blessing To The Wayland Effort

Published last month was an updated but still experimental version of the native Wayland support for Wine after that code was originally published last year. One of the lingering questions has been around the prospects of mainlining this Wayland driver in Wine while last week the longtime Wine project leader, Alexandre Julliard, provided some clarity on the matter.

5 March 2021 - Wine + Wayland - 31 Comments
Wine-Staging 6.2 Drops Down To 669 Patches

Two weeks ago with Wine-Staging 6.1 it was at nearly 800 patches atop the upstream Wine code-base while for Wine-Staging 6.2 it has fallen to just a 669 patch difference.

13 February 2021 - Wine-Staging 6.2 - 7 Comments
Wine Begins Landing PPC64 Code To Eventually Help With Windows Programs On POWER
Wine Begins Landing PPC64 Code To Eventually Help With Windows Programs On POWER

Going back about two years there has been work on properly supporting Wine on POWER 64-bit (PPC64). Now past the Wine 6.0 stable release, it looks like that work that work is finally beginning to land. In conjunction with Hangover to handle the cross-architecture aspect, the hope is to eventually allow Windows x86 programs to work on libre POWER systems or at the very least with native Winelib support to help in porting open-source Windows software to IBM POWER / OpenPOWER.

10 February 2021 - Wine PPC64 - 21 Comments
Wine PPC64 Revived Again For Running Windows Programs On POWER CPUs

Two years ago patches were posted in working on Wine support for IBM POWER / OpenPOWER hardware. The aim with that enablement has been to run Windows programs on POWER 64-bit hardware via Wine with the related "Hangover" project for handling the cross-architecture difference. The Wine patches for PPC64 have now been revived with hopes of mainlining them now that Wine 6.0 has passed.

1 February 2021 - Wine POWER 64-bit - 19 Comments
Wine 6.0-rc6 Released With More Fixes

Wine 6.0-rc6 is out today as the latest weekly release candidate of Wine 6.0 that will be released in the near future. Either due to nearing the end of the release cycle and/or Wine developers having a post-holiday hangover, Wine 6.0-RC6 is coming in light on new fixes.

8 January 2021 - Wine 6.0-rc6 - Add A Comment
Wine 6.0-RC5 Released With 21 Bug Fixes

Wine 6.0 stable should be out this month but for now is another weekly release candidate of this open-source project that allows running Windows games/applications on Linux, macOS, and BSD platforms.

2 January 2021 - Wine 6.0 - Add A Comment
Wine 6.0-RC2 Released With 40 More Bugs Fixed

Following last week's Wine 6.0-RC1 release that marked the feature freeze and start of the release process for the annual stable Wine release, Wine 6.0-RC2 is out today with the latest assortment of fixes.

11 December 2020 - Wine 6.0 - 5 Comments
Wine 6.0 Release Preparations Begin In Two Weeks

With Wine on an annual stable release cadence for shipping new stable feature releases generally at the beginning of each calendar year after a year's worth of bi-weekly development snapshots, Wine 6.0 is due for release around January.

23 November 2020 - Wine 6.0 - 11 Comments
Hangover Alpha 2 Lets Windows x86/x64 Programs Run On ARM64, POWER 64-bit

The Wine program for running Windows games/applications on Linux and other platforms can run on a number of different architectures, but Wine doesn't handle the emulation of running Windows x86/x64 binaries on other architectures like 64-bit ARM or PowerPC. But that's what the Wine-based Hangover is about with currently allowing those conventional Windows binaries to run on AArch64 (ARM64) and 64-bit POWER too.

31 October 2020 - Hangover Alpha 2 - 7 Comments
CodeWeavers Announces Rebrand With PortJump + ExecMode

CodeWeavers as the main contributor to the Wine code-base and employing many of the key developers thanks to the development of their Linux and macOS CrossOver software is working on a rebrand and promotion of their consulting services.

13 October 2020 - CodeWeavers - 22 Comments

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