--- Lonnie Cumberland lonnie@outstep.com wrote:
Hello All,
I hope that all of you are doing well today.
Recently, I have been doing some searching on the web and have come across different verions of Wine and am not sure how they compare to each other as far as advancements.
I have found Wine (here), Rewind, and also WineX.
could someone please tell me about the differences and also which might be the most advanced and stable?
thanks in advance, Lonnie
wine (here) is the original wine, it was designed to let people run windows programs on any unix-like operating system, actively maintained and updated daily by alexandre julliard, stable/unstable status can change from day-to-day, uses LGPL license.
rewind is the same as this one, but uses older X11 license, actively maintained and updated by eric pouech, ove kaaven, and david hammerton.
winex is a fork of rewind that is designed mainly for gamers. actively maintained and updated daily by transgaming, inc, users can download from cvs, or pay a $5/month subscription fee to receive official tech support and built-in copy protection support.
there is also codeweavers, which is a fork of this tree, actively maintained and updated daily by codeweavers, inc, main support for wine, pushing toward official "1.0" release, uses updates from here and internal updates, can only be downloaded (as far as i know) as snapshots of cvs code.
also is an ibm (internal) fork, and a defunct corel fork, neither of which are/can be used by the general public.
hope that helps
-Dustin
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