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Re:Wine 11 rewrites how Linux runs Windows games at kernel w... by pdpi on Tuesday March 24, 2026 @04:34PM (#47508795)
And vice-versa. It's pretty interesting that the two projects haven't kind of merged despite all the collaboration.
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Re:Wine 11 rewrites how Linux runs Windows games at kernel w... by MisterTea on Tuesday March 24, 2026 @05:03PM (#47509267)
Very different projects so I would not encourage a merge but sharing a code base? I can totally see that being a boon for both and other Windows emulation projects.
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Re:Wine 11 rewrites how Linux runs Windows games at kernel w... by Induane on Tuesday March 24, 2026 @06:10PM (#47510196)
ReactOS periodically rebases some of it's libraries from Wine.
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Re:Wine 11 rewrites how Linux runs Windows games at kernel w... by badsectoracula on Tuesday March 24, 2026 @10:52PM (#47512636)
Wine devs do not want to work with people who have looked at ReactOS[0] (see at the end) so any collaboration is one-way (or by ignoring the guidelines) and the likelihood of the two projects merging is zero.

[0] https://gitlab.winehq.org/wine/wine/-/wikis/Clean-Room-Guide...

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Re:Wine 11 rewrites how Linux runs Windows games at kernel w... by DaSHacka on Tuesday March 24, 2026 @11:51PM (#47513042)
Surprised no one responded to the 7th comment in that linked email thread, the author brought up a good point about making progress without using any disassembled windows binaries.
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