A heads-up for wine users

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hazel

Apparently the latest kernel, 3.14, has a security fix that clashes with wine. The problem is only supposed to occur with old 16-bit DOS/windows apps, but apparently there are quite a few folk around that still use those. And configuring wine for win9x is said to fail even if you only intend to use native 32-bit apps.

The problem could spread if the fix is backported into older kernels. You can read about it here.

No skin off my nose fortunately!

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