Steady march to CrossOver 8.0 builds for OpenSolaris and FreeBSD

Written by Tom Wickline

Tuesday, 05 May 2009 13:31

From Jeremy White's Blog at CodeWeavers:

We've been making good progress towards CrossOver 8.0. In fact, we are feeling confident enough about our progress that we put out a public release of the first beta. We've done this mostly for our customers that use Quicken 2006. This way, they can upgrade to Quicken 2009 before the support for Quicken 2006 expires.

While we're pleased with the progress on 8.0, we do have a good bit of work to do. Internet Explorer 7 requires some polish, and our efforts to make Office 2007 progress to Gold rating needs a good bit more work as well. Of course, all of our efforts and the efforts of the Wine community as a whole, mean that even this beta build represents a significant progress. I'm really looking forward to releasing a more polished version sometime in the next month or so - I think CrossOver 8 is going to be fantastic! (Okay, I'm admittedly quite biased, but hey, I still think it's going to be a great release ).

Additionally, I'm happy to say that we've leveraged Francois Gouget's hard work, along with a lot of work from the broader community, and have put out unsupported builds for FreeBSD and OpenSolaris. Hopefully this will help spread some CrossOver joy to folks that may have been feeling neglected. After all, it's a bit hypocritical for us Linux guys to fault BSD and Solaris for having low market share. And I feel that the BSD community has responded to my challenge.

Note: I don't recommend this beta for most customers. It is likely to be unstable, and cause other problems. This is really a bleeding edge build for fairly advanced users who don't mind taking on a bit of risk. But for those of you crazy enough to try it, enjoy!

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Ché 2009-06-09 15:53:30

I am looking for the OpenSolaris beta but can't see it anywhere on codeweavers to be downloaded :(

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Tom Wickline 2009-06-09 16:49:18

it's under unsupported downloads, in your downloads section. We released Bordeaux 1.8.0
for OpenSolaris BTW :) http://bordeauxgroup.com/store/bordeaux-software

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Che 2009-06-09 20:22:30

Thanks Tom...I'm really looking forward to trying both when I get back home. So exciting that we now
have your commercially supported Wine variant on OpenSolaris!!!

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