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Written by Tom Wickline
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Thursday, 02 December 2010 05:48 |
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The Wine development release 1.3.8 is now available.
Whats new in this release:
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Icons in the "open with" menus.
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Man pages for all installed binaries.
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Support for schemas in MSXML.
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Many installer fixes.
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Translation updates.
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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.
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Written by Tom Wickline
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Wednesday, 02 June 2010 07:35 |
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| With Apples market share growth increasing you really dont see a lot of companies moving from Windows-based computers to Macs. Sure, you will find mixed environments, with Macs predominantly in the creative departments. But, you dont typically see a complete departure from Windows. Well, Google is making the move from Windows based computers to Macs and Linux based computers.
Google is tired of security issues with Windows, and this is what they are doing about it:
Were not doing any more Windows. It is a security effort, said one Google employee. Many people have been moved away from [Windows] PCs, mostly towards Mac OS, following the China hacking attacks, said another. New hires are now given the option of using Apples Mac computers or PCs running the Linux operating system. Linux is open source and we feel good about it, said one employee. Microsoft we dont feel so good about.
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Written by Tom Wickline
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Wednesday, 12 May 2010 05:46 |
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Competition is an important part of all markets. It drives innovation, keeps prices down, and typically tends to ensure a quality product. Don't get me wrong, I think Crossover is fantastic software, but with Cedega pretty much being dead where is the choice in commercial Wine software? Lesser known than the two previously mentioned is Bordeaux.
Bordeaux is a commercial Wine software more similar to Crossover than Cedega in respect to the fact that it directly uses the Wine project. What makes Bordeaux worth taking a look at? Well there are a few things!
Firstly I would like to highlight the fact that Bordeaux updates their software regularly. The version I obtained to use for this review is the soon to be released 2.0.4, which ships with Wine version 1.1.41. The current release, 2.0.0, ships with Wine 1.1.36 (where is Crossover has been shipping with Wine 1.1.24 for sometime now). For those not familiar a newer Wine version typically means support for more applications and better performance for those that already ran in past versions. Worried about buying Bordeaux and then having an new version come out a couple months later? No worries, your purchase comes with free upgrades for six months after purchase.
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Written by Tom Wickline
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Tuesday, 10 November 2009 02:01 |
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Introduction
I'm going to go against the grain here and embarrass my fellow bit-tech staffers – I love my Macbook. In fact, since I recently acquired my Macbook Pro after an accident involving some rather delicious green tea, I've fallen even more in love.
Now, I'm not here to preach about the love of Macs, because I happen to be a firm believer in the idea that all of the major operating systems have their place. I do my office work on Windows, run Linux servers, and live my daily life on a Mac.
The problem has always been in gaming – the area is almost entirely dominated by Windows. I'm not going to whine about the developers leaving the rest of us in the cold or any of that hooplah – let's be realistic here. Windows dominates the market and honestly DirectX (for all its quirks) is arguably one of the best APIs in the whole history of computing, let alone gaming.
Of course, since DirectX is exclusively Windows-based, it's left Mac and Linux users out in the cold for quite some time. Releases lag by months if not years before a Mac port is created, and that's if one is ever even seen. Updates are rare and bugs linger for ages. Sure, there are some great games coded natively for OSX or Linux as Glider wrote about previously, but most commercial titles are just not there.
Enter Wine, an ages-old project to get Windows software running on non-windows machines. The Wine project now has several offshoots, which in the gaming side come in the form of Cider (at the architectural level from the makers of Cedega) and a very highly-tweaked Wine (at the virtualization level) which remains open source.
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Written by Tom Wickline
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Monday, 17 August 2009 20:15 |
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Daniel Colquitt wrote up a nice review of CrossOver Office on Linux.
Although for the most part, Linux is a far superior operating system when compared with Windows, the one area where Linux falls behind is the wide range of quality programs available on Windows. Although more and more program houses are releasing software compatible with Linux operating systems, the majority of software released on Linux usually has a more limited function set when compared with the equivalent Windows version. There are some exceptions to this rule of course, Matlab for example works equally well (if not better) on Linux than Windows. Perhaps most notable is the discrepancy in the Office Suites available on Windows/Mac and Linux. OpenOffice, although trying hard, is not up to the level of functionality and ease of use of Office. Furthermore, in terms of email applications nothing on Linux can even come to Outlook. In particular, if you want to be able to integrate with a Microsoft Exchange server Outlook really is your only feasible option.
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Written by Tom Wickline
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Wednesday, 04 March 2009 18:12 |
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Sure, it's handy being able to run Internet Explorer or Microsoft Office on Linux or the Mac thanks to WINE and Crossover Linux and Mac, but you know what's even cooler? Running WoW (World of Warcraft) or Guild Wars on them.
That's why I'm really pleased to see that CrossOver, the company behind WINE, the programs that lets you run Windows programs on Linux and Mac OS, has just released new editions of CrossOver Games for Mac and Linux, version 7.2.0.
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Tuesday, 22 July 2008 01:43 |
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Dan Kegel released winetricks 20080720 with the following changes.
- ogg filters/codecs: flac, theora, speex, vorbis, schroedinger
- divx codec update
- fix made to winetrickstmp
- ffdshow updated to beta 5
- fix made to firefox3
If you use the codecs that winetricks supports this is a important update as there has been many useful fixes and updates to this area.
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Written by Tom Wickline
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Sunday, 13 July 2008 05:30 |
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Hello everyone,
This is an uncommon news request that you are reading. Indeed, this isn't a simple script announce but, above all a request to test the new SimCity 4 script.
Why?
For several reasons. The first one is the popularity of a game such as SimCity 4. Nostalgics will remember all the hours spent on SimCity 1, SimCity 2000 (available in POL), SimCity 3000, and, since 2003, SimCity 4. Allowing thousands of Linux users to play to this famous city-builder is an interesting, and above all an important task so.
The second reason for this request is the script's complexity. It's certainly not the most complex one, but it's long and has some particularities, etc...
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Written by Tom Wickline
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Monday, 05 May 2008 02:04 |
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Today while browsing around I came across a nice article about getting (GTA) Grand Theft Auto Vice City to run in Wine on Ubuntu. I'm not a huge fan of posting links to torrent downloads so ive removed that link from this post. Software and Games developers have to make a living as well... Anyway, if your into torrent downloads you can find the torrent site easily enough.
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