Hi All,
Just a quick note to say thanks to the Devs for the incredible job that you are doing on the march to 1.0.
I have been following Wine development for many many years, and the progress in the last year is truly extraordinary. Earlier today I fired up my copy of Firefox 1.5.0.7 for Windows with Wine 0.9.25, browsed to the Firefox page, downloaded Firefox 2.0, clicked `Open' from the download window, ran the installer flawlessly, and started up the new version of Firefox seamlessly. From there I downloaded ColorPic (a screen color picker for Windows that I use for Web work); the .zip file opened up automatically in WinRAR, from which I was able to launch the installer executable and install it fine. It started up after install perfectly too, and now I can pick colors from all over my Linux (Gnome) desktop with a Windows color picker tool. Not a single error, glitch, or fault to be seen. It all went fast, and smooth. It seems to me that Wine is now at the point that the average user could probably browse the web quite happily, downloading little Windows apps and trying them out, without ever even realising they were running the Windows versions of everything.
Astounding.
Awesome.
Full credit.
many regards,
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Darryl Dixon