# Think you're persistent?

**URL:** https://forums.speedlife.net/t/think-youre-persistent/50159
**Category:** NYSpeed Off Topic
**Created:** [June 17, 2008, 4:34pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/think-youre-persistent/50159 "2008-06-17T16:34:57Z")
**Posts on this page:** 6
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### Author: ![Fry](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/fry/32/7284_2.png) [@Fry](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Fry)
#### Post date: [June 17, 2008, 4:34pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/think-youre-persistent/50159/1 "2008-06-17T16:34:57Z")

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> The Wine team is proud to announce that Wine 1.0 is now available. This is the first stable release of Wine after 15 years of development and beta testing. Many thanks to everybody who helped us along that long road!

> **[WineHQ - Run Windows applications on Linux, BSD, Solaris and macOS](https://www.winehq.org/)**
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> Open Source Software for running Windows applications on other operating systems.

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### Author: ![Paulo](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/paulo/32/7328_2.png) [@Paulo](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Paulo)
#### Post date: [June 17, 2008, 7:54pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/think-youre-persistent/50159/2 "2008-06-17T19:54:46Z")

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Holy shit. Now that’s a some serious R&D.

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### Author: ![Joe](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/joe/32/7219_2.png) [@Joe](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Joe)
#### Post date: [June 17, 2008, 7:56pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/think-youre-persistent/50159/3 "2008-06-17T19:56:34Z")

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so what was it created for, to emulate Windows 3.11?

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### Author: ![boardjnky4](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/96bed5/32.png) [@boardjnky4](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/boardjnky4)
#### Post date: [June 17, 2008, 8:09pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/think-youre-persistent/50159/4 "2008-06-17T20:09:44Z")

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wine has been DECENT for a while. I’ve used it many times.

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### Author: ![sureshot](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/sureshot/32/7578_2.png) [@sureshot](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/sureshot)
#### Post date: [June 17, 2008, 8:09pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/think-youre-persistent/50159/5 "2008-06-17T20:09:47Z")

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“After 15 years of strenuous laboring in the office and finally releasing Wine 1.0, chief programmer J. Newman ![http://forum.winehq.org/images/avatars/58980436947bde26953615.jpg](http://forum.winehq.org/images/avatars/58980436947bde26953615.jpg) came home to his wife managing their mp3 collection on her new iMac”

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### Author: ![Fry](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/fry/32/7284_2.png) [@Fry](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Fry)
#### Post date: [June 18, 2008, 6:06am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/think-youre-persistent/50159/6 "2008-06-18T06:06:20Z")

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> [@sureshot!](#):
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> “After 15 years of strenuous laboring in the office and finally releasing Wine 1.0, chief programmer J. Newman came home to his wife managing their mp3 collection on her new iMac”

:lol: