Wine 1.4

It seems like only yesterday Wine 1.0 was released!<p>Well, it was 1360 yesterdays: <a href="http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=220164" rel="nofollow">http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=220164</a>

There is one problem that worries me, 1.4 came out with a known (for few RC's and 2-3 releases before) regression that makes Photoshop CS5 unusable - not sure about older ones too but it might also be the case :(

Official announcement: <a href="http://www.winehq.org/announce/1.4" rel="nofollow">http://www.winehq.org/announce/1.4</a>

Cool, Joystick support. I wonder if it will run FMS? (R/C model simulator, <a href="http://n.ethz.ch/~mmoeller/fms/index_e.html" rel="nofollow">http://n.ethz.ch/~mmoeller/fms/index_e.html</a>)<p>Once it runs that, and maybe Netflix, I have no reason to ever boot back to Windows.

I tried using CrossOver to run Office 2007 a year ago, and while it basically worked I found it was just as good if not better to run Windows in VirtualBox (and I don't even have VM instructions on my processor).

The DIB engine is something I've been anxiously looking forward to for a long time now. It makes productivity suites.. work. For me the biggest thing was not being able to run Sonar and many VST plugins under Wine. Now I'm waiting for them to figure out Jack audio output again, and then we get a new version of KX Studio ( <a href="http://kxstudio.sourceforge.net" rel="nofollow">http://kxstudio.sourceforge.net</a> ) with realtime patches. Other than the GUI problems which are probably fixed by Wine 1.4, this setup gives stellar performance compared to anything you can get on Windows or OSX.