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CrossOver for BSD systems coming soon!

Today a discussion started about the availability of CrossOver for BSD systems on the CodeWeavers mailing list.

CrossOver Games vs Wine 0.9.58

  • Wine-Review; By Thomas Wickline (Posted by twickline on Apr 7, 2008 7:53 PM EDT)
  • Story Type: News Story
Here is the first of a two part post of benchmarks that compare the performance of CrossOver Games 7.0 against Wine 0.9.58

Office 2007 on Linux with Wine install guide

  • Wine-Review; By Thomas Wickline (Posted by twickline on Mar 27, 2008 8:18 AM EDT)
  • Story Type: Tutorial; Groups: Linux
This is a guide with code samples, screenshots, and two screencast of how to install Microsoft Office 2007 on Linux with Wine. Microsoft Office 2007 (officially called 2007 Microsoft Office system) is the most recent version of Microsoft's productivity suite.

An introduction to CrossOver Games

CrossOver Games is a commercial variant of Wine released by CodeWeavers with support for many of today's most popular games.

DirectX 9.0c March 2008 redistributable on Linux with Wine

  • Wine-Review; By Thomas Wickline (Posted by twickline on Mar 23, 2008 6:33 AM EDT)
  • Story Type: Tutorial; Groups: Linux
A guide with screenshots and code samples to show you how to install and run most of the DirectX 9.0c March 2008 redistributable on Linux using Wine.

CodeWeavers to release CrossOver Games

  • Wine-Review; By Thomas Wickline (Posted by twickline on Mar 18, 2008 3:23 AM EDT)
  • Story Type: Announcements; Groups:
Today while browsing around the CodeWeavers site I came across the 2008 CrossOver roadmap that was posted by Jeremy White the CEO of CodeWeavers.

Wine 1.0 Release Criteria updated

  • Wine-Review; By Thomas Wickline (Posted by twickline on Mar 17, 2008 5:06 AM EDT)
  • Story Type: News Story
On March 15th Dan Kegel sent a email to the wine-devel mailing list with a outline of the new release schedule for Wine 1.0

Flash CS3 and Photoshop CS3 running in Wine

  • Wine-Review; By Thomas Wickline (Posted by twickline on Mar 15, 2008 10:20 AM EDT)
  • Story Type: News Story; Groups: Linux
It looks as if Wine might be supporting Adobe's Flash CS3 as well as Photoshop CS3 on Linux in the near future.

Wine on Solaris

  • Wine-Review; By Thomas Wickline (Posted by twickline on Mar 12, 2008 6:03 AM EDT)
  • Story Type: Tutorial; Groups: Sun
If you use Solaris or Solaris Express, you may want to also use Wine to install Windows programs. There are few ways, but I will write about my favorite - one that uses SFE repository, which enables you to use other fantastic open source programs not packaged for Solaris yet.

Wine-Doors 0.2 first look

So, the last two days I’ve been hard at work coding on the 0.2 structure and user interface, the application layout is a lot simpler and I’ve completely decoupled the user interface from the core functionality.

Linux has better Windows compatibility than Vista

  • Wine-Review; By Thomas Wickline (Posted by twickline on Feb 1, 2008 11:18 AM EDT)
  • Story Type: Reviews
I have been using Vista for well over a year now (since Beta 1). Of course Vista is slow, its bloated (over 10x the size of XP), aero kills system performance (even though this should be done on the video card), networking is pathetically slow, etc etc. We all know Vista sucks.

Bordeaux WineTricks Manager 0.3 released

This is the third release (0.3) of Bordeaux, this release has many fixes and improvements over the 0.2 release. The Application Manger and Winetricks manager are now merged in to a single UI for ease of use.

Review of PlayOnLinux

  • Wine-Review; By Clint Christopher Canada (Posted by twickline on Jan 17, 2008 11:34 AM EDT)
  • Story Type: Reviews
PlayOnLinux (POL) is a python-based frontend (with bash install scripts) to install windows programs in Wine.

Bordeaux WineTricks GUI Manager

This is the second release (0.2) of Bordeaux, this release adds a GUI to WineTricks.

Running MS Office 2003 under Linux with Wine 0.9.52

Running Microsoft Office 2003 on Linux with Wine 0.9.52

Microsoft Office 2007 on Linux with Wine

I installed Microsoft Office 2007 on a computer with Windows XP and then moved everything over to this box that has Linux on it.

Google SketchUp 6 on Linux and FreeBSD with Wine

  • Wine-Review; By Thomas Wickline (Posted by twickline on Dec 14, 2007 2:58 PM EDT)
  • Story Type: Tutorial
Google SketchUp 6 on Linux and FreeBSD with Wine

Wine 0.9.49 Benchmarks

I now have my new box up and running and thought I would post some benchmark results that I've run. All of the 3DMark Benchmarks were run in window mode at 1024x768x32 unless other wise stated.

Wine with Safedisc and GLSL support

  • Wine-Review; By Thomas Wickline (Posted by twickline on Nov 11, 2007 8:19 PM EDT)
  • Story Type: News Story
As of Wine 0.9.49 Safedisc (copy protection) has had many fixes and most safedisc 2/3/4 games should now work with this and later Wine releases. Another major change is that Wine now enables GLSL (shader model 2.0/3.0) by default when your video drivers support it.

New Wine help and discussion forum

Today the new Wine help and discussion forum at wine-forum.org went live, the forums are meant to be a meeting place for anyone interested in Wine usage or development.

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