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We, as computer users, run applications -- all sorts of them. We browse the web with an program, send e-mail via another, write up reports, crunch numbers, listen to music, transfer files and store contacts using a long list of different applications. There are thousands upon thousands of programs floating around the digital world and there's one problem: they don't all run on your operating system.

So we set out to make the newly released Civilization V would work in CrossOver a few weeks back. I felt it was my duty to help the QA staff with the testing.

CodeWeavers Releases CrossOver 9.2 to Support Civilization 5 on Linux and Mac... SAINT PAUL, Minn. (October 19, 2010) Less than a month after Firaxis released its highly anticipated and acclaimed Civilization 5, CodeWeavers, Inc. today announced the release of CrossOver Games 9.2, enabling gamers to play the game on Linux and Mac operating systems.

The Bordeaux Technology Group released Bordeaux 2.0.10 for OpenIndiana today. Bordeaux 2.0.10 is a maintenance release that fixes a number of small bugs. With this release we have bundled Wine 1.2.1, 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.

The Wine development release 1.3.5 is now available. The source is available now, Binary packages are in the process of being built, and will appear soon at their respective download locations.

The Wine maintenance release 1.2.1 is now available. The source is available now, Binary packages are in the process of being built, and will appear soon at their respective download locations.

Dan Kegel released winetricks 20101008 today. new verbs abiword, dsound, nvidiasdk9, vd, xinput as well as QuickTime 7.6

Its time for a new q4wine release tagged by the 0.120 version.

The Wine development release 1.3.4 is now available. The source is available now, Binary packages are in the process of being built, and will appear soon at their respective download locations.

This is the last week end before our 50% donation promotion ends. If you purchase Bordeaux for Linux, Mac, FreeBSD, PC-BSD or OpenSolaris. ( We will soon have a OpenIndiana release ) we will in return donate half of all sales back to the community.

The Bordeaux Technology Group will in the near future have a stable 2.0.8 release of Bordeaux for OpenIndiana. With the pending release users of OpenIndiana will have the ability to easily install and run many of todays popular Windows based applications and games on their operating system of choice.

They say the best blogging is about story-telling. So, let me tell you one of mine how I came to write this post. First, some background: I run a Windows-free environment, and have for a long time. I put in my time with “Windoz” many years ago, and quickly left it behind.

PlayOnLinux 3.8.3 has been released, it was a silent release and no changelog has been provided by the PlayOnLinux team.

The Wine development release 1.3.3 is now available. The source is available now, Binary packages are in the process of being built, and will appear soon at their respective download locations.

Dan Kegel released winetricks 20100917 today, new verbs crypt32, devenum, d3dx9_26, winhttp. Another fortnight, another Winetricks.

I thought this would once again be a good time for us to share our next six months outlook for Bordeaux. Maybe I should start with whats taken place over the past few months then go over our future goals.

A question I have fielded more then a couple times in the Wine section of the Ubuntu Forums is. What is the difference between commercial Wine products and vanilla Wine?

PlayOnLinux 3.8.1 was released this morning. Bugs #30 and #31 were fixed. Function introduced with PoL 3.7.7, for auto_shortcut was buggy in last release, now fixed. Full rewrite of an internal function that installs a plugin shipped with PoL automatically on startup. Plugin Capture was updated with the last version (2.1.1). Translation was updated with the last available on Launchpad (synced the 2010-09-02). And finally new tools appeared, playonlinux-cmd.

The Wine development release 1.3.2 is now available. The source is available now, Binary packages are in the process of being built, and will appear soon at their respective download locations.

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?