LXer: Ubuntu 7.10 + WINE vs. Windows XP

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10-20-2007, 09:20 AM	#1
LXer LXer NewsBot Registered: Dec 2005 Posts: 128,367 Rep:	LXer: Ubuntu 7.10 + WINE vs. Windows XP Published at LXer: This week's release of Ubuntu 7.10 "Gutsy Gibbon" is a significant win for the free software community. Not only does this release incorporate an updated package set -- most notably with the Linux 2.6.22 kernel and GNOME 2.20, but it also delivers on new desktop innovations from BulletProofX and displayconfig-gtk to Compiz Fusion being enabled by default on supported systems. However, for those business professionals and gamers that remain dependent on some Windows-only binary applications, the WINE (WINE Is Not An Emulator) project has been making some excellent headway into supporting Windows applications on the Linux desktop. With Ubuntu 7.10 and WINE 0.9.46 in hand, we had set out to compare the performance between Windows XP and Gutsy Gibbon with WINE on two popular DirectX benchmarks. Read More...

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