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Bordeaux for FreeBSD coming soon Print
Written by Tom Wickline   
Tuesday, 19 August 2008 02:19
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 2003/2007 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 away beta builds, but what we can do is if you decide to purchase a license from the store for FreeBSD (beta)  your support will last six months after the final build is released, so don't worry you will get a full six months of upgrades and support on the final product. And by purchasing a pre release build you can submit your input and help support the development process.

Also, 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.

Updated 08/22/08 : Added Office 2000 and 2007 screenshots.
Updated 08/26/08 : Added Bordeaux beta to the store to simplify downloads.
Bordeaux GUI running on FreeBSD 7

Internet Explorer 6 running on FreeBSD 7

Steam running on FreeBSD 7

Word 2000 running on FreeBSD 7

Excel 2003 running on FreeBSD 7

PowerPoint 2003 running on FreeBSD 7

Word 2003 running on FreeBSD 7

Office 2007 Install on FreeBSD 7

Word 2007 running on FreeBSD 7


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user 2008-08-19 07:32:36
This looks like really good news.
Two questions though. What is it really?
Is it a tweaked wine
version, like cedega?
And second, can it run ie7?
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Tom Wickline 2008-08-19 07:36:47
user wrote:
This looks like really good news.
Two questions though. What is it really?
Is it a tweaked
wine version, like cedega?
And second, can it run ie7?

Bordeaux is mainly a GUI for Wine that can use custom configurations. It has a template system
in place at this time that can config a registry in a cellar "bottle" or use a
custom dll with hacks in it so a application or game will run properly.

As for IE7, sorry
it's not supported at this time and wont run.

Tom
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Nick Koch 2008-08-19 07:38:41
Just to clarify... Bordeaux is not a tweaked Wine version! Bordeaux uses the regular Wine. So you
can use Bordeaux with any Wine release after Wine 1.0. This allows users to update and stay current
with the regular Wine release schedule.

Currently Wine is not able to run the Graphic User
Interface (GUI) of IE7; however, Ies4Linux has accomplished getting the IE7 engine working on top of
the IE6 GUI.
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Nice Going to try this
BSDWorld.NET 2008-08-23 03:59:34
Nice write up I'm going to try this one.
Keep up the good work

http://www.BSDWorld.NET/
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will try it
jazz 2008-08-26 20:01:35
Good i will try this, i have several industrial plc programs (directsoft, koyo)+ hmi that i could
not get running under wine....only under vmware.. but i prefere to get it running under wine :)
I
will report the results soon
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