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Bringing WINE Into Ubuntu Main
Dec 16, 2008, 19 :02 UTC (4 Talkback[s]) (5401 reads)

(Other stories by Michael Larabel)

"This proposal is coming after he and several Ubuntu developers had discussed this idea last week at the Ubuntu Developer Summit. What he is proposing is that by default on new installations of Ubuntu, when clicking on an Windows executable file to come up with some prompt informing them of the possible actions, and then to setup WINE by default."

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  Talkback(s) Name  and Date
What he is proposing is that by default  ...   Viruses and worms and trojans, oh my!   
Art Cancro
Dec 16, 2008, 20:00:55
 
This will have the unwanted side effect  ...   Re: Viruses and worms and trojans, oh my!   
Segedunum
Dec 16, 2008, 22:05:16
 
This should have been done years ago in  ...   Too Little, Too Late   
Segedunum
Dec 16, 2008, 22:08:21
 
because any problems are confined to Win ...   Re: Viruses and worms and trojans, oh my!   
Art Cancro
Dec 17, 2008, 12:57:34
 
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