Wine Doors

10 07 2007
I don’t use Wine. It’s difficult to get anything working and a pain once it is. However since I found out about the Wine-Doors project, it’s made me go back on that thought. It’s a fairly new project, but well on it’s way to being an enabler for a great many users. A great many users have been looking for that one last thing, to get them over the hump of still using Windows. Some tried Wine, and couldn’t get it to work properly, like myself, that is where Wine-Doors helps out. Out of the box it installs things like the Microsoft core fonts, winegecko, mozilla activex control and the visual C++ runtime, which resolves a great many discrepancies that users wrestle with in wine. Once installed, you can install some of the hardest Wine apps with the grace of the double click: World of Warcraft Halflife 2 (Steam) iTunes Flash 8 And many more, with more all the time. You can check out the growing list at the Wine-Doors wiki under BundledWith mubix

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10 07 2007
#1 anonymous (Reply)

Nice! I hadn’t heard of the wine-doors project but it sounds like it makes things a lot easier. I’ll definitely be trying this out. Thanks!
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25 07 2007
#2 tehyeti (Reply)

I gave it a run and it was quite good, made wine a lot more user friendly, almost noob proof. Things like puting winamp in with my multimedia apps and 7zip with accessories in my XFCE menu was unexpected but really cool. Thanks for the great info, and the USB tool torrent, keep up the good work. Rawr, Yeti.
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09 01 2008
#3 dibo (Reply)

hmm, i only see quicktime and not itunes as available to install
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