CodeWeavers open invitation to Wine-Doors and other closed projects users

Written by Tom Wickline
Thursday, 02 September 2010 03:38

A couple weeks back I noticed the Wine-Doors project was down and on their front page they have a message "Very very broken and I don't have time to fix it" So what should users who have been using Wine-Doors, or any of the other closed projects do in the future to configure and run their favorite Windows Applications and Games on Linux or Mac?

One option is to use Vanilla Wine from winehq and configure and set everything up yourself. This takes some knowledge of how Wine works and some time to test each small change to see if its helping or hurting your Application or Games. You will also need to be familiar with running regedit and editing the user and system registry in Wine.

Another option that is allot easier for end users and business is to move to CodeWeavers CrossOver for Linux and Mac. Wine-Reviews and CodeWeavers would like at this time to invite all of the past Wine-Doors users to try CrossOver Pro or Games and receive a instant 25% discount off any purchase. To receive the 25% discount just enter "ComeToTheLight" as your special dealcode when you purchase CrossOver.

Written by Tom Wickline
Thursday, 26 August 2010 08:20

Projects die without dedicated people to manage them and having funding for an FOSS project allows for those dedicated people to spend more time devoted to the project itself (instead of working that silly "day job"). If you have been by my blog before then you know I write about Wine software every so often and on a few specific occasions about Bordeaux, a commercial Wine product.
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Bordeaux 2.0.8 for Linux Released

Written by Tom Wickline
Thursday, 26 August 2010 05:08

The Bordeaux Technology Group released Bordeaux 2.0.8 for Linux today. Bordeaux 2.0.8 is a maintenance release that fixes a number of small bugs. With this release we have updated firefox to 3.6.8, Added support for Apples Safari 5.0 Web Browser, Updated to the latest winetricks release and fixed desktop shortcuts.

Bordeaux 2.0.8 was built on Ubuntu 10.04 LTS, so you will need to have GLIBC 2.11 or higher before Bordeaux will work properly.

We bundle our own Wine build and many tools and libraries that Wine depends upon. With this release we bundle Wine 1.2, Cabextract, DIB Engine, Pulse Audio, Mozilla Gecko, Unzip, Wget and other support libraries and tools.

The cost of Bordeaux 2.0.8 is $20.00. Anyone who has purchased Bordeaux in the past six months is entitled to a free upgrade. Bordeaux comes with six months of upgrades and support and of course a 30-day money back guarantee. For the next month we are having a 50% donation promotion, 50% of all sales will go toward supporting WineConf 2010 and the FreeBSD Foundation. More information can be found in this post.

PlayOnLinux 3.8 has been released

Written by Tom Wickline
Thursday, 26 August 2010 05:07

Hello everybody!

PlayOnLinux 3.8 is now out!

A lot of bugs have been fixed

- Fixed Bug #22,
- Ukranian file should be called uk.po instead ua.po,
- PlayOnLinux can no longer run in its own environement,
- The program does not alert the user that 3D acceleration is not present when mesa-utils packet is not installed,
- Fixed a bug in libraries loading,
- Fixed bug in Wine Import plugin and Offline PlayOnLinux plugin,
- Some cleaning.

A lot of new features

Written by Tom Wickline
Monday, 23 August 2010 03:57

The Bordeaux Technology Group released Bordeaux 2.0.8 for FreeBSD and PC-BSD today. Bordeaux 2.0.8 is a maintenance release that fixes a number of small bugs. With this release we have updated firefox to 3.6.8, Updated to the latest winetricks release and fixed desktop shortcuts.

Bordeaux 2.0.8 was built on FreeBSD 8, PC-BSD 8 and PC-BSD 7.1 We provide a .sh installer for FreeBSD and .pbi installers for PC-BSD.

Depending on sales, we plan to add Pulse Audio to the next major BSD release. So if you would like to have Pulse Audio in Wine on FreeBSD and PC-BSD make a purchase. Help spread the word!

We bundle our own Wine build and many tools and libraries that Wine depends upon. With this release we bundle Wine 1.2, Cabextract, DIB Engine, Mozilla Gecko, Unzip, Wget and other support libraries and tools.

Written by Tom Wickline
Monday, 23 August 2010 00:49

Last month we ran a 50% off sale on Bordeaux and this month we would like to do something a little different and raise some money for a good cause. With your help we would like to help support three very important projects.

The first project is the Wine Development Fund. Proceeds from the WDF go toward supporting the annual Wine Conference. This year the Wine Conference will be held in Paris, France.
The second project is freebsdnews.net. freebsdnews is a site about the current happenings in the FreeBSD community.
The third project is the FreeBSD Foundation. The FreeBSD Foundation is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization dedicated to supporting the FreeBSD Project.

We will donate 50% of all sales over the next month to each of the three projects listed above. Below is how we plan to distribute the funds to each project :

For each Linux and OpenSolaris sale we will donate 50% of sales to the WDF to help fund this years Wine Conference.

For each Mac, FreeBSD and PC-BSD sale we will donate 50% of sales to freebsdnews and then in return Gerard from freebsdnews will donate 10% of the funds he receives to the FreeBSD Foundation.

The remaining 50% covers our expenses and also will be used to hire a new developer to improve our UI for Bordeaux 3.0 (see below).

Wine 1.3.1 Released

Written by Tom Wickline
Friday, 20 August 2010 14:24

The Wine development release 1.3.1 is now available.

Whats new in this release:

Support for drag & drop between X11 and OLE.
New ipconfig.exe builtin tool.
Support for favorites in builtin Internet Explorer.
Beginnings of a shell Explorer control.
A number of DirectDraw code cleanups.
Improvements to the calendar control.
Various bug fixes.

The source is available now. Binary packages are in the process of being built, and will appear soon at their respective download locations.

Written by Tom Wickline
Thursday, 19 August 2010 01:33

Tomorrow will be the last day of our huge 50% off sale of Bordeaux for Linux, Mac, FreeBSD, PCBSD and OpenSolaris.
Bordeaux for Linux and BSD has been marked down to only $10.00 and Bordeaux for Mac and OpenSolaris will cost you only $12.50 during this sale.

This sale will end on Friday August 20th 2010. So, If you have ever wanted to try Wine or Bordeaux and have put off your purchase in the past this is the perfect time to try Bordeaux and save 50% off the normal selling price.

Written by Tom Wickline
Friday, 13 August 2010 01:15

SAINT PAUL, Minn. (August 11, 2010) Jeremy White, founder and CEO of gadfly software developer CodeWeavers, Inc., announced today he is the firms Employee of the Month for the 175th consecutive month, an accomplishment unmatched by any executive in corporate America.

Founded 175 months ago and based in Saint Paul, Minn., Whites CodeWeavers, Inc. develops software enabling users to run Windows Applications on Mac and Linux without a Windows operating system. CodeWeavers employs 35 people worldwide.

Each month, CodeWeavers selects an employee who excels in productivity, industriousness, passion, team spirit and initiative, said White. We seek an individual who goes above and beyond his or her daily requirements to demonstrate greatness and loyalty.

Q4Wine 0.119 has been released