[markomalley]

Great news for those who need to use the MS Office suite but prefer a flavor of Linux as the OS.

[posterchild]

Is openoffice not quite compatible yet?

[wally_bert]

Very much so.

[Paladin2]

Can WINE-2.0 be setup to run in addition to a current WINE setup in case things don’t work out immediately?

[dayglored]

MS-Office running on Linux (under WINE) ... PING!

You can find all the Windows Ping list threads with FR search: just search on keyword "windowspinglist".

[Fai Mao]

I still have games that won’t run on a virtual box.

[rfreedom4u]

How many bottles of wine do I need to drink for this to work?
Red or white?

[Mr. K]

"sudo add-apt-repository ppa:wine/wine-builds Once added to your software sources you can can upgrade or install the latest stable release using: sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install wine-staging"

I'll be sure to tell grandma to do this so she can download pictures of her grandkids and cooking recipes.

This is why LINUX is not the system that runs the world...

Decades on, and there is still not a user-friendly interface

[Bob434]

any word on photoshop compatibility? I could not get photoshop working under previous wine- is there a list of games that can be run on it yet? Tried a few games that were claimed to be compatible, they never ran very well- so i ended up resorting ot dual booting to run windows 7 for photoshop and games-

Would be nice to not have to dual boot though- (Yes, pgotoshop can run in virtual machine- but it’s slow and has quirks that slow my processing procedures down too much- I do have in installed in VM, but only fire it up for very basic photo fixes- for more intense work i have to dual boot into windows and run it proper)

[the_Watchman]

It would be nice to know whether Microsoft Internet Explorer is supported. I am not really interested in running IE on Linux, but I know of a bunch of people who would like to run Logos Bible software on Linux and it uses some of the network infrastructure of IE to run. Thus, if IE runs, it might work.

[dadfly]

bookmark

[Conan the Librarian]

Marking for later consumption.

[onona]

Did someone say wine ???

[Boogieman]

Does it go as well with a nice Italian meal as Wine 1.0 did?

[eyeamok]

Think it will run QyickbooksPro???? I am going to give it a shot tomorrow, it is the only program I need Winblows for, yes it works in VirtualBox on Ubuntu but I would rather do it native in Linux.

[TChad]

I was surprised and relieved to find that my ancient-but-beloved Borland Sidekick 99, a 16 bit Windows program, ran perfectly on Wine under Linux Mint.

[martin_fierro]

Wine 2.0 Released, Lets You Run Microsoft Office 2013 on Linux

"Let us redefine progress to mean that just because we can do a thing, it does not necessarily mean we must do that thing.”

-- Kirkwood Smith character background babbling in “Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country”

[Dalberg-Acton]

I have Linux Mint 18 Cinnamon and installed Wine 2.0 a few minutes ago. Then I tried to run Caligari TruSpace 4.2, which has never run properly in Windows XP Pro or Windows 7 on VMWare or Virtual Box.
Wine complained and I had to add a missing MFC42.DLL to the program folder. I found it on a Win XP Pro disk.
Now it runs great with no issues seen at this time.
True Space is a 3D graphics program that Microsoft bought and then killed. Now I don’t have to learn Blender (a more modern and capable program).