Left 4 Dead 2 was one of the most anticipated games of 2009. Even before its full release the good people over at Codeweavers where hard at work making sure their CXGames software would be ready to allow Linux and Mac gamers everywhere to fully enjoy this latest edition to Valve's source games. Less than twenty four hours after L4D2 hit shelves CXGames 8.1 was released.
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A brief summary of Wineconf 2009 by Scott Ritchie
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A brief summary of Wineconf 2009 by Scott Ritchie, Scott went into detail about all the happenings at this years Wineconf. If you want to know about the changes in store for Wine and WineHQ in 2010 you will most defiantly want to read on...
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Wine 1.1.33 Released
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The Wine development release 1.1.33 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.
What's new in this release:
* Gecko now installed at wineprefix creation time.
* Better support for certificates in crypt32.
* Improved sound support in mciwave.
PlayOnLinux 3.7 has been released
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The changes brought by PlayOnLinux 3.7 are:
- Right-clicking directly on A application is now possible.
- The ability to change an application's icon.
- The ability to access very quickly the installation directory of an application.
- The ability to stop all the applications run by PlayOnLinux at once.
Now Linux Can Get Viruses Via Wine
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I forget who, but some wiseguy stuck a link to site (not linkified so Google doesn't mark me as evil) on his Facebook wall, which reminded me of one reason I love Firefox (and Linux): security.
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q4wine 0.113 has been released
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Finally, after many months of development, testing and bugfixing a new version of q4wine has been released. q4wine is a wine configuration and management utility written in QT.
New features avalible in the 0.113 release are:
Added:
* Added q4wine-cli console utility for wine applications and prefixes management.
* Added libq4wine implementation;
Bordeaux 1.8.2 for Linux Released
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The Bordeaux Technology Group released Bordeaux 1.8.2 for Linux today. Bordeaux 1.8.2 adds support for Apple's QuickTime 6.5.2 Player, IrfanView 4.25 the extreamly popular image viewer and editor. This release aslo bundles in Cabextract, Wget and Unzip to remove external dependencies.
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Juraj Šípoš Who maintains http://www.freebsd.nfo.sk/ wrote a nice review about Bordeaux on FreeBSD. The original review is at www.linuxexpres.cz and can be translated with google translate. Just choose Slovak to English or your language of choice, Here is a link to the English translation.
Here is a small snip of the review, Juraj also talks about WineTricks and CodeWeavers CrossOver Ofiice.
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Bordeaux 1.8.2 for FreeBSD Released
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The Bordeaux Technology Group released Bordeaux 1.8.2 for FreeBSD today. Bordeaux 1.8.2 adds support for Apple's QuickTime 6.5.2 Player, IrfanView 4.25 the extreamly popular image viewer and editor. This release aslo bundles in Cabextract, Wget and Unzip to remove external dependencies.
Read more »Running Windows Apps on Solaris with Bordeaux 1.8.2 and Wine
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By itself Wine is very usable but you need a fair amount of expertise or lots of time to get your favourite Windows application running correctly. This is why we have companies like Bordeaux Group and CodeWeavers who sell commercially supported Wine version or management tools that make our lives a little easier.
Read more »MegaTux to run 1 million copies on Wine to simulate the Internet
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The Dell Thunderbird supercomputer, named MegaTux, has 4,480 Intel microprocessors running Linux virtual machines with Wine, making it possible to run 1 million copies of a Windows environment without paying licensing fees to Microsoft.
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Wine 1.1.25 Released
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The Wine development release 1.1.25 is now available.
What's new in this release:
* A ton of translation updates.
* Support for various Unicode file encodings in Notepad.
* Improved memory management, especially for OpenGL.
* Desktop menus now cleaned up automatically.
* Beginnings of a windowscodecs DLL implementation.
* Various bug fixes.
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Wine 1.1.24 Released
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The Wine development release 1.1.24 is now available.
What's new in this release:
* Support for freedesktop file associations.
* Support for exception handling on 64-bit.
* Improved ARB shaders.
* Fixes for the FBO mode.
* Many listview improvements.
* Various bug fixes.
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How-To: Install the Latest Wine Release in Debian Lenny
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Debian Lenny comes with Wine 1.0.1 included in the repositories, which is the stable release of Wine, but it is also a little outdated. Here are a few easy steps for compiling and installing the latest Wine release from source in Debian Lenny. This tutorial should work for the latest Wine release (at the time of writing, the last release is 1.1.17).
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PlayOnLinux has a new server and website
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Today I announce to you the transfer of PlayOnLinux to a new server. We have taken this opportunity to give the website a little makeover. What's new: A brand new front page, all made up and pretty. A complete, rewritten documentation. The forum has undergone some changes as well, with a search feature.
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