Wine Will Go Beta Next Week
After roughly 12 years of work, the Wine Project is about to take its widely used Windows translation layer to a place it has not been in all that time: beta.
Wine Project leader Alexandre Julliard, who has worked on the software nearly since its beginning in 1993 and maintained it since 1994, said interview yesterday that the beta release is “a matter of days away.” He has since updated that forecast and said it would be released on Tuesday, October 25th.
Wine Project / Beta / Linux / Alexandre Julliard / Crossover Office 5 0
"We are currently in code freeze for the release," Julliard said. "It should happen sometime next week."
Wine allows Windows software to run on Linux and other x86-based Unix operating systems by running the Windows application program interface (API) and other Windows dynamic link libraries (DLL).
The beta release of Wine comes a few weeks before the expected release of Crossover Office 5.0, the Wine-based proprietary software from Codeweavers that is marketed to run Windows office suite software but also handles some games and other programs.
Jeremy White, Codeweavers founder and a "big booster" of Wine, said the beta release of the software is a watershed event because in addition to user apprehensiveness toward an alpha release, a lack of consistency in the software's function also turned people off. And while Wine, or some form of it, has become common across the Linux universe, 11 years as an alpha is a long time.
[Read more on Wine Will Go Beta Next Week at NewsForge]
Wine Project leader Alexandre Julliard, who has worked on the software nearly since its beginning in 1993 and maintained it since 1994, said interview yesterday that the beta release is “a matter of days away.” He has since updated that forecast and said it would be released on Tuesday, October 25th.
Wine Project / Beta / Linux / Alexandre Julliard / Crossover Office 5 0
"We are currently in code freeze for the release," Julliard said. "It should happen sometime next week."
Wine allows Windows software to run on Linux and other x86-based Unix operating systems by running the Windows application program interface (API) and other Windows dynamic link libraries (DLL).
The beta release of Wine comes a few weeks before the expected release of Crossover Office 5.0, the Wine-based proprietary software from Codeweavers that is marketed to run Windows office suite software but also handles some games and other programs.
Jeremy White, Codeweavers founder and a "big booster" of Wine, said the beta release of the software is a watershed event because in addition to user apprehensiveness toward an alpha release, a lack of consistency in the software's function also turned people off. And while Wine, or some form of it, has become common across the Linux universe, 11 years as an alpha is a long time.
[Read more on Wine Will Go Beta Next Week at NewsForge]
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