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WIne 10.14 Ships With Updated Mono, VKD3D 1.17 & Ping Support For IPv6

([WINE] 4 Hours Ago Wine 10.14)


Wine 10.14 is out to end August as the latest bi-weekly development release of this open-source software for enjoying Windows games and applications under Linux and other platforms.

Wine developers continue marching toward the Wine 11.0 release early next year. Wine 10.14 ships the very latest feature code for facilitating broader testing. With Wine 10.14 they have pulled in [1]VKD3D 1.17 for the Direct3D 12 over Vulkan API layer.

Wine 10.14 also updates to using the Mono engine 10.2 release. Wine's GitHub Continuous Integration (CI) Has also transitioned to using the new Debian 13 "Trixie" release.

Wine's built-in "ping" application also now supports pinging on IPv6 connections.

Wine 10.14 brings 19 bug fixes for the past two weeks including various game fixes, a WOW64 stack overflow, various application issues due to depending upon gameinput.dll, and various other fixes.

Downloads and more details on the Wine 10.14 release via [2]WineHQ.org GitLab .



[1] https://www.phoronix.com/news/VKD3D-1.17-Released

[2] https://gitlab.winehq.org/wine/wine/-/releases/wine-10.14


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Brief History Of Linux (#18)
The rise and rise of the Microsoft Empire

The DOS and Windows releases kept coming, and much to everyone's surprise,
Microsoft became more and more successful. This brought much frustration
to computer experts who kept predicting the demise of Microsoft and the
rise of Macintosh, Unix, and OS/2.

Nobody ever got fired for choosing Microsoft, which was the prime reason
that DOS and Windows prevailed. Oh, and DOS had better games as well,
which we all know is the most important feature an OS can have.

In 1986 Microsoft's continued success prompted the company to undergo a
wildly successful IPO. Afterwards, Microsoft and Chairman Bill had
accumulated enough money to acquire small countries without missing a
step, but all that money couldn't buy quality software. Gates could,
however, buy enough marketing and hype to keep MS-DOS (Maybe Some Day an
Operating System) and Windows (Will Install Needless Data On While System)
as the dominant platforms, so quality didn't matter. This fact was
demonstrated in Microsoft's short-lived slogan from 1988, "At Microsoft,
quality is job 1.1".