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Wine running windows aps better than winxp

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Posted: 01/20/06 - 10:27
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khrath

 
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A set of banchmarks has proven that under some conditions, WINE can beat Windows XP SP2 at some tests. To be exact, out of 147 tests, WINE beats Windows XP on 67. The WINE version used was 0.9.5, running on a Gentoo Linux system, with some fairly decent hardware


http://wiki.winehq.org/BenchMark-0.9.5




Just thought this was kinda funny


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Posted: 01/20/06 - 10:36
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kireol
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ya, wine is pretty sweet. I remember the first time I played with it I ran winzip install and it put the icon on my desktop and everything. I was like whoa.


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Posted: 01/20/06 - 11:42
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lol


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Posted: 01/20/06 - 12:03
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Owyyn
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Now they just need to do hardware driver emulation.


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Posted: 01/21/06 - 03:46
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kireol wrote:
ya, wine is pretty sweet. I remember the first time I played with it I ran winzip install and it put the icon on my desktop and everything. I was like whoa.


woah dued, i heard bout this new thing called Windows that does that too. Check it out, dawg.

www.microsoft.com


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