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Written by Tom Wickline
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Tuesday, 19 August 2008 02:19 |
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Over the last couple day's I have been working on the Bordeaux for FreeBSD 7 port. We now have everything compiling and running but a lot more testing needs to be done before it's ready for a final release. Internet Explorer, Steam and Office 2003 are the only applications ive gotten around to testing thus far. The good news is everything that I have tested works fairly well on FreeBSD.
If you're a FreeBSD user and need to run any of the software that we currently support on the Linux client you might be interested in helping beta test this build and future builds up to the final stable release. At this time we cant give out beta builds, but what we can do is if you purchase a license from the store for a Linux build then send a mail to support. This email is provided once you purchase a licence, and ask for a FreeBSD build I can send it to you.
If we get enough interest in beta testing we could start a beta testing mailing list as well.. So if your interested in helping out head over to the store and purchase a license and send us a mail. If you have a friend or know of someone interested in this please send them our way.
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Written by Tom Wickline
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Monday, 18 August 2008 22:02 |
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About Internet Explorer :
Windows Internet Explorer (formerly Microsoft Internet Explorer abbreviated MSIE), commonly abbreviated to IE, is a series of graphical web browsers developed by Microsoft and included as part of the Microsoft Windows line of operating systems starting in 1995. It has been the most widely used web browser since 1999, attaining a peak of about 95% usage share during 2002 and 2003 with IE5 and 6 but steadily declining since, despite the introduction of IE7. Microsoft spent over 100 million dollars (USD) a year in the late 1990s, with over 1000 people working on IE by 1999. source
About BordeauxGroup, Inc.:
Founded in 2008, The Bordeaux Group focuses on the development of Free Software solutions enabling legacy Windows applications to run on Linux systems and other non-Windows operating systems. Bordeaux for Linux is designed to aide in the transition and migration to non-Windows platforms by bringing Windows software to Linux. The company is privately held. For more information about the Bordeaux Group please visit http://www.wine-reviews.net/bordeaux.html
Bordeaux cost $20.00 and at this time and sadly there isnt a demo version, hopefully this will change and a demo will be released for in the 2.x release cycle. There is a possibility a standard free version will be released with just a couple small applications supported and a pro version with more application support.
Internet Explorer Install :
Bordeaux is dependant on Wine 1.0 being installed on your system, so the first thing you need to do is download and install Wine for your distro if its not already installed. Once you have Wine installed open a terminal and run $ winecfg this will create a .wine directory in your home directory.
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Written by Tom Wickline
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Sunday, 17 August 2008 17:33 |
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CrossOver Linux 7.0.2 overview:
This section is for those new to CrossOver Linux. If you already know what CrossOver is and want to find out what's new in version 7.0.2, skip down to the next section.
CodeWeavers' CrossOver Linux is a software framework that emulates the Microsoft Windows 98, 2000 and XP application programming interfaces (APIs) on GNU/Linux. This allows Windows programs to run on GNU/Linux without having to run a virtual instance of the operating system e.g. a virtual machine. CrossOver was originally designed to bring Microsoft Office and Intuit Quicken to GNU/Linux, but many more programs have been tested and are known to work with CrossOver to some degree at this time.
CrossOver Linux is based on the free software Wine API emulator, and adds only commercial support and proprietary installation tools to help with configuration. So in essence, CrossOver is no more capable than recent builds of Wine, but it does have a number of extras that add a great deal of value through convenience. Despite its basis in free software, CrossOver Linux is governed by a proprietary license that prohibits sharing.
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Written by Tom Wickline
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Wednesday, 13 August 2008 05:25 |
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Darwine 1.1.2 has been released for Tiger and Leopard.
- Bevore You install, please make sure:
- Tiger users: install X11 from your Tiger Installation DVD
- download and open Darwine 1.1.2
- drag Darwine to the "/Applications" Folder
- to delete, just drag the folder "Darwine" to the trash
- to completely remove Darwine (and Windows apps) from your system delete the following files and folders:
- /Applications/Darwine
- ~.wine
- ~/Library/Preferences/org.wine.winehelper.plist
- feedback to
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Written by Tom Wickline
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Monday, 11 August 2008 22:51 |
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ReactOS 0.3.6 Released
In a little over a month since version 0.3.5, we are announcing the release ReactOS 0.3.6. This release along with the rest of the 0.3.x series is still considered alpha quality software, so do not set your expectations too high. ReactOS 0.3.6 is the product of the current development focus: bugfixes, compatibility, and stability. There were more than a thousand commits to the ReactOS Subversion repository this month.
Changes summary
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Written by Tom Wickline
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Monday, 11 August 2008 10:45 |
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gOS 3 Gadgets BETA instantly launches Google Gadgets for Linux on startup, introducing over 100,000 possible iGoogle and Google Gadgets to the desktop.
Google Documents, Calendar, and Mail launch in Mozilla Prism windows to closer resemble desktop applications. The newest release of WINE 1.0 is included to now support thousands of Windows software for our advanced users. gOS 3 Gadgets BETA is based on the solid Linux distribution base of Ubuntu 8.04.1.
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Written by Tom Wickline
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Wednesday, 06 August 2008 04:49 |
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This is the 350 issue of the Wine Weekly News publication. Its main goal is to put an end to the mystery of the great accept ex bug! It also serves to inform you of what's going on around Wine. Wine is an open source implementation of the Windows API on top of X and Unix. Think of it as a Windows compatibility layer. Wine does not require Microsoft Windows, as it is a completely alternative implementation consisting of 100% Microsoft-free code, but it can optionally use native system DLLs if they are available. You can find more info at www.winehq.org
Issue: 350
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Written by Tom Wickline
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Friday, 01 August 2008 07:55 |
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Huw Davies today sent a update on the status of the DIB Engine that he's working on for Wine.
What is a DIB Engine?
This is from the Wine wiki:
DIBEngine
Wine requires a DIB engine (part of the display subsystem that, when pointed at screen memory, can serve as a flat-frame-buffer display driver) to properly handle Device Independent Bitmaps (DIB). In the Win32 API, an application can draw in a DIB via GDI calls or via direct memory access without any synchronization calls in between.
This implies a rather tight coupling of the graphics subsystem with the system memory, which is simply not present in a network transparent design such as X. This is a leftover of the Win16 API, I guess it seemed like a good idea at the time.
To emulate such behavior, we have to play memory tricks (by protecting the DIB memory) and switch between a 'GDI mode' and 'memory mode'. On each of these transitions, we have to copy the DIB to/from the X server. It works, but it is slow, especially over the network.
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Written by Tom Wickline
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Wednesday, 30 July 2008 23:20 |
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News From POL site
Age of Wonders & Baldur's Gate (Edition 5 CDs) compatible with version 3 of POL
The improving of scripts for better compatibility with version 3 of POL continues. Today the lucky ones are Age Of Wonders and Baldur' S Gate (5 CDs).
In connection with Age of Wonders: I am not any more in possession of a CD, I could not test the script in his entirety, I based the script on my version already installed. It is normally functional but if you to notice any bugs, or have and problems please contact me as fast as possible.
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Written by Nick Koch
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Monday, 28 July 2008 04:41 |
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Bordeaux 1.4 was released today and its a significant upgrade over the prior 1.2 release, version 1.4 comes with support for Microsoft Office 2003, Visio 2003 and Project 2003. Version 1.4 has improved Office 2000 menu support and Cellar support fixes. There has also been many small bug fixes and tweaks on the backend to improve the speed and reliablity of all the supported applications and games.
The cost of Bordeaux 1.4 is $20.00. Anyone who bought 1.0 or 1.2 can upgrade to this release for free. Bordeaux comes with six months of upgrades and support and of course a 30-day money back guarantee.
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