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It runs everywhere!It runs everywhere!Posted Aug 22, 2012 14:54 UTC (Wed) by pboddie (subscriber, #50784)In reply to: It runs everywhere! by cortana Parent article: Kamp: A Generation Lost in the Bazaar
Actually, I was impressed with Wine running a fairly old, but still 3D-based, game that I thought would be a migration show-stopper recently. Even the fancy joystick controller worked as intended.
Meanwhile, with Java runtime environments, if you don't want to run the Sun JRE or just can't, even if OpenJDK should do the job because of its common heritage and proximity to the Sun JRE, that's no guarantee it will work. As I noted, people in certain industries are great at touting the supposed openness of a technology while deploying something that only works with one vendor's specific product.
It also doesn't inspire confidence that Oracle as a vendor, ignoring the reputation currently enjoyed by the company after its recent behaviour, still lives on pre-Internet time with respect to security updates. That said, I do wonder how much attention any of the JREs get in comparison to widely-used open source projects.
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It runs everywhere! Posted Aug 22, 2012 15:07 UTC (Wed) by cortana (subscriber, #24596) [Link]
Unlike with most Java programs, which are only tested on the Sun^WOracle JRE, at least there is a large community of users who try out Windows programs on Wine, and file bugs/send patches to get things fixed. :)
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