Longene-0.3.0 Release Notes

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Longene(Linux Unified Kernel) is a free, open-source computer operating system kernel project intended to expand the Linux Kernel to be binary-compatible with application software and device drivers not only made for Microsoft Windows but also made for Linux OS. This will enable the Windows application running on the Linux operating system highly effectively.

Longene-0.3.0 was released on May 31, 2010. Click http://www.longene.org/en/download.php to go to download page. The release consists of three parts: the longene linux kernel patch, longene kernel module and wine for longene(wine-1.0-longene). To build longene, the linux-2.6.30 source is also needed which you can download from linux kernel official website http://www.kernel.org or the download center of longene website.

Longene-0.3.0 is an important milestone release, which fully got rid of wineserver. The request to wineserver now is turned to system call. So from this release, we no longer provide the patched wine but wine for longene source code. Longene still depends on dlls and some programs of Wine.

Because of the absence of wineserver, there is no need for applications to communicate with wineserver. The performance of Longene improves a lot than the original Wine, which is the meaning of developing Longene. The performance analysis is here: http://www.longene.org/test_analyze.php. The install readme in detail is here: http://www.longene.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=19&t=4218

Longene-0.3.0 has been successfully installed in Ret Hat Enterprise 5.1, Ubuntu 9.04, Ubuntu9.10, Redflag 6 and Magic Linux 2.5-1. Installation and test longene on other linux distributions are appreciated!