Once again Wine developers delivered development release of Wine. As always it includes many improvement. There were also 48 bugs fixed.
The few most interesting additions to this release include:
Among these fixed bugs is one really funny one (Don't worry, this bug is not a Wine bug and had been closed as INVALID.), I present You bug number 34556 "wineserver sending SYNs to remote ports 139 and 445".
This bug reminds that if You want Windows compatibility it might brining more than useful programs or games.
In this case a wonderful virus W32:Tenga has inserted itself for a ride. While it was mildly harmless for Wine and Linux "it spread from Wine to the other Windows boxes on my LAN via port 139, and trashed them all"
For more info about Wine viruses and their behaviour under it You can read this list.
To learn more about this release pleas visit this announcement.
The source code is available here:
http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/wine/wine-1.7.3.tar.bz2
http://mirrors.ibiblio.org/wine/source/1.7/wine-1.7.3.tar.bz2
You can also get the current source directly from the git. Article taken from GamingOnLinux.com.
The few most interesting additions to this release include:
- New version of the Gecko engine based on Firefox 24.
- Preparation work for the Direct3D command stream.
- Window management fixes in the Mac driver.
- Support for IPHLPAPI functions on Android.
- Various bug fixes.
Among these fixed bugs is one really funny one (Don't worry, this bug is not a Wine bug and had been closed as INVALID.), I present You bug number 34556 "wineserver sending SYNs to remote ports 139 and 445".
This bug reminds that if You want Windows compatibility it might brining more than useful programs or games.
In this case a wonderful virus W32:Tenga has inserted itself for a ride. While it was mildly harmless for Wine and Linux "it spread from Wine to the other Windows boxes on my LAN via port 139, and trashed them all"
For more info about Wine viruses and their behaviour under it You can read this list.
To learn more about this release pleas visit this announcement.
The source code is available here:
http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/wine/wine-1.7.3.tar.bz2
http://mirrors.ibiblio.org/wine/source/1.7/wine-1.7.3.tar.bz2
You can also get the current source directly from the git. Article taken from GamingOnLinux.com.
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One thing that I would love is for Steam on Linux to allow integration with Wine.
Of course playing games natively is better (from my steam library of circa 360 games, 142 are Linux games), but for all these games that are not available natively, being able to launch from the Linux Steam without having to load a wine steam instance would be a major step forward.
As for the virus, I hope that this unwanted guest did not feel at home!
Of course playing games natively is better (from my steam library of circa 360 games, 142 are Linux games), but for all these games that are not available natively, being able to launch from the Linux Steam without having to load a wine steam instance would be a major step forward.
As for the virus, I hope that this unwanted guest did not feel at home!
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That bug.
Glad that the Wine devs are intelligent to not let any windows programs near linux itself. Although it does worry me that viruses can still run from wine themselves attacking other things, guess it serves them right for using Windows :P.
As for wine, apart from a few programs it works great after the 1.7 update. Ofc i ALWAYS suggest porting programs rather than wining them no matter how complex because it always will yield better results.
QuoteAlso sent a note to wine-devel noting the successful run of a virus.
Glad that the Wine devs are intelligent to not let any windows programs near linux itself. Although it does worry me that viruses can still run from wine themselves attacking other things, guess it serves them right for using Windows :P.
As for wine, apart from a few programs it works great after the 1.7 update. Ofc i ALWAYS suggest porting programs rather than wining them no matter how complex because it always will yield better results.
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