The Wine team is proud to announce that Wine 1.0 is now available. This is the first stable release of Wine after 15 years of development and beta testing. Many thanks to everybody who helped us along  that long road!

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Wow! After so many years, finally Wine is now stable. I’ve been using it for years and during the beta days Wine is performing well.

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Wine allows users to run Windows programs natively under Linux without paying a dime. However, there’s a tiny problem: programs running in Wine don’t look so great. They don’t even try to fit into your native GNOME or KDE color scheme or use your preferred fonts. You could use a Windows theme, but themes make Wine run extremely slowly. Luckily, with a little configuration editing, it’s easy to make Wine applications look at lot more like the rest of the apps on your desktop.

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This is release 0.9.51 of Wine, a free implementation of Windows on Unix. What’s new in this release: A bunch of WinHelp improvements. Better Japanese font support. A ton of rpcrt4 fixes. Several Alsa capture fixes. Improved support for screen resolution changes. Lots of bug fixes.

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The only thing that matters for me and millions of others if for them to support GameGuard and the likes. That way we can eliminate Windows OS entirely

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These are the Top 10 list of Wine Applications that was taken from Wine Application Database (AppDB).

Top 10 Platinum List
Applications which install and run flawlessly on an out-of-the-box Wine installation

1. Soldat 1.3.x
2. Star Wars: Jedi Knight - Jedi Academy 1.x
3. Soldat 1.4.x
4. Half-life Counter-Strike: 1.6
5. Diablo II Lord of Destruction 1.x
6. WinRar 3.x
7. Dreamweaver 8.x
8. IrfanView 4.x
9. Geogrid-Viewer 3.2 (Build 3.2.5.1951)
10. Rollercoaster Tycoon 2 1.00

Top 10 Gold List
Applications that work flawlessly with some special configuration

1. World of Warcraft 2.3.0
2. Silkroad Online 1.x
3. Steam All Versions
4. Counter-Strike: Source Retail / Steam
5. Day of Defeat: Source Steam
6. GoonZu Online Frequently Updated
7. Warcraft III The Frozen Throne: 1.x
8. Call of Duty 2 1.00
9. DVD Profiler 3.1.x
10. Sid Meier’s Civilization IV Warlords: 2.08

Top 10 Silver List
Applications with minor issues that do not affect typical usage

1. EVE Online 3.22.x
2. Command & Conquer 3: Tiberium Wars 1.x
3. Supreme Commander 3xxx
4. Photoshop CS2
5. Guild Wars 2 1.x
6. Battlefield 2 1.x
7. Half-Life 2 Retail (32-bit)
8. EverQuest 2
9. City of Heroes All Versions
10. StarCraft Brood War: 1.x

source: Wine AppDB

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