[Cialug] Security and the browser

Matthew Nuzum newz at bearfruit.org
Mon Oct 20 14:18:55 CDT 2008


On Mon, Oct 20, 2008 at 2:11 PM, Nathan Stien <nathanism at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 20, 2008 at 2:06 PM, Tom Pohl <tom at tcpconsulting.com> wrote:
>>
>> Maybe I'm missing something, but seriously, wine for windows?!?
>>
>> http://www.winehq.org/site/download
>
> My first impulse was to check the release date, and to my surprise, it was
> not April 1.

Pure speculation... maybe to make it easier for Windows developers to
see if their code works properly when run with the wine libraries
under non-windows? I seem to remember that developers could target the
wine version of the libraries while coding and avoid some of the
surprises that comes with porting to wine.

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Matthew Nuzum
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