On Sat, Nov 21, 2009 at 9:10 PM, ELCouz <wineforum-user@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Is wine reliable? No. Wine is full of bugs. It's incomplete and different from Windows in many ways, some of which are well-understood. It'd be more useful to ask "Is the combination of Wine and my application reliable?", and of course that's unanswerable. In running your program under Wine, you replace all of Windows with something completely new, and it may behave differently in subtle (or not so subtle) ways. You might find that in production, your application runs some code that wasn't run in your testing, and that code exposes a Wine bug. It's really your responsibility to do the proper testing to decide whether your program running in Wine in a particular Linux distribution is reliable enough for your purposes. I get the feeling you were really thinking about defects like memory leaks or corruption that could go undetected for a while but eventually cause a serious problem. I can't make any promises about this, but I believe that the core parts of Wine are relatively free of defects. I think you're more likely to be affected by a difference in implementation or an unimplemented feature. -- Vincent Povirk
