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A Introduction to Bordeaux 2011.03 for Linux FreeBSD and PC BSD
The first major change is the Bordeaux 2011.03 GUI has been rewritten from scratch in Gambas, and requires the Gambas 2.15.2 runtime libraries or higher to be installed to function correctly. You can easily install Gambas in Linux from Synaptic or Yum or by going to the Gambas site and downloading a binary or the source code. Gambas for FreeBSD and PC-BSD can be installed through a ports install. If you have PC-BSD you will need to install ports if you haven't already done so. |
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Bordeaux makes it easy for anyone to install and run apps with Wine on Linux, FreeBSD and PC-BSD.
Bordeaux 2011.03 will run anywhere Gambas runs, so Solaris and Mac support will be next on our radar.
Cheers, Tom
It also runs WoW and a lot of other games extremely well which is a bonus, in fact some of these games wont even run properly on Win 7 such as Kotor 2 for instance which runs great on wine but crashes on startup on Win 7.
Long live wine.
Windows doesn't have anything I need so, for me, wine is 'meh'.
We dual-boot Windows XP and Linux. The XP is only used for playing some older games that the kids like to play like various incarnations of Unreal and Unreal Tournament. Recently, I have been investigating the native Unreal versions and they seem pretty good. So no XP or Wine for this now.
However, for many other games, Windows was the only option until fairly recently. I've been playing a lot of games (Lara Croft, Chuzzle and some others) within Wine and they work great without any issue at all. For Netflix (which STILL doesn't have an official linux client) I run a virtualised XP and that works fine.
We use LibreOffice and a lot of the free included apps with Linux on our machine these days.
Wine is great for running a lot of legacy proprietary Windows applications and we have a shelf full of them that both we and kids use, and Wine is just great for that.
My hat goes off to the Wine developers for all the great work that they have done.
According to the Wine AppDB, 1.3 is still a no-go :(
http://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=version&iId...
Perhaps you could submit some bug reports? It might be actually something fairly simple.
However, from a trawl around the internet, it might be caused by some copy prevention measures not easing into the Wine framework.
No.
So WINE goes unused.
Quoting:Ive been using wine for about 2 years now, its excellent for some dev tools such as the excellent free windows software packager which i use called Inno Setup.
Don't know why I never though of that, I guess I never thought it would work. My installer 600mb and uses various NSIS plugins, just installed NSIS through Wine and without changing my scripts the installer compiled successfully. Of course, I still would need to test it in an actual Windows environment, but this is very convenient.
There are games I wish to play that only work for Windows 98 and I couldn't get working for Vista /7, such as System Shock 2 and Thief. I'll have to give them a try too.
Quoting:"Would I play this again?"
Heh, I would play Hexen again... ;) I think there is a Linux port somewhere... Or it's my imagination pretending to be memory again...
Actually, I'm not blaming Wine. The dependence of modern CAD-programs on Microsoft is just outrageous.
Both Inventor and Solidworks need MS Office (!), parts of .NET, IE6+ (!) and I believe Flash. I'm pretty sure MS somehow 'bought' those vendors; see http://techrights.org/2009/01/12/bill-gates-jihad-vs-linux/
All those CAD-programs ran on UNIX in the past, and now they're Windows-only. Pro-Engineer was the last one to stop UNIX-support, not too long ago. From experience, I can tell sometimes they halt with no apparent reason, so they're not that stable on Windows. Thrice a day is considered normal, which means losing some work about three times a day.
I wanted to run some CAD-software when I was undeployed, to continue to practice and make sure my skill level didn't fall too much. But now I'm working with SolidWorks everyday, so the problem is gone!
Even AutoCad today can only be installed (with student license) if you also install Inventor, so even AutoCad probably doesn't work with Wine, though I'm not sure. Pretty sad.
I hope someday the CAD-vendors will make a web application which uses WebGL, which would be a smart business decision because then they're no longer dependent on architecture, browser and OS.
I read the link: some of the things on the documents they have there are hilarious!
Quoting: Chicken & egg problem that ISVs still see no customer demand for Windows versions
o ISVs are trying to reduce the total # of platforms they support cuts their R&D, support etc. costs. Ideal scenario for them is that UNIX disappears and they support only Linux.
Intel’s perspective on what’s not changed since the last time
o Continued need for interop (b/w UNIX and Windows, in our case)
o Continued need for stability of environment, OS, shell environment, scripts, etc.
Microsoft's response to Intel: "We know all that, but please will you run Windows internally and port all your webservers to IIS?"
Ha ha harrr! ROFL
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How many people actively use Wine? My own experience indicates that it will now run more things than it doesn't including a lot of games. Running 1.3 bleeding edge from git.
The biggest surprise that I had the other day was for experiencing printer support. I didn't cotton onto the fact until then that Wine provides a "pseudo" printer driver which covers the real Linux drivers and it works great.