fast WINE update distro recommendation needed

[tparker]

I am getting ready to reinstall Linux and am looking for a distro with a
repository/package management system that stays very current with the WINE
builds. Does anyone use one they can recommend?

I am still learning and have tried to do my own builds to stay current with
WINE versions but the process is still beyond my skill level and has failed
horribly each time, so until I learn more I am stuck with whatever the latest
version in the distro repository is.

Last re-install I moved from Ubuntu to Fedora because I was told Fedora stayed
more current on software, but for WINE it has been consistently behind
(current repo version is still only 1.1.38). Since WINE is the only program I
am worried about staying current on I thought it would be good to ask for
recommendations. Thanks.

[dimesio]

I am getting ready to reinstall Linux and am looking for a distro with a
repository/package management system that stays very current with the WINE
builds. Does anyone use one they can recommend?

I've been using openSUSE for about three years. Packages for the regular Wine releases are usually up within a day or so, and there are separate daily Wine snapshot packages as well. These packages are provided for the last three versions of openSUSE, not just the latest.

[Gert van den Berg]

Hi,

Gentoo might work... Even if the packages get outdated, you still have
everything you need to compile Wine... Looks like Git Wine is what you
actually want... http://wiki.winehq.org/GitWine (Under Gentoo you can
unmask the wine-9999 package te get a automatically compiled git Wine)

With a script to update and compile it, it is not so bad...

Gert

[guitarMan666]

You might like to try Arch Linux (archlinux.org) which always offers the
latest version. You could also use Ubuntu 10.04 and add the WINE PPA
which is also always current, which is what I do.