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Microsoft Office OneNote 2007 on Linux

Thu, 09 Jul 2009 18:28:43 -0500

About Oneote 2007
Office OneNote 2007 is a digital notebook that provides one place to gather notes and information, powerful search capabilities to find what you're looking for quickly, and easy-to-use shared notebooks to help manage information overload and work with others more effectively. As an integrated part of the 2007 Microsoft Office system, OneNote 2007 makes it easy to gather, organize, find, and share your notes and information more efficiently and effectively. Powerful search capabilities can help you locate information from text within pictures, or from spoken words in audio and video recordings. And easy-to-use collaborative tools help teams work together with all of this information in shared notebooks, whether online or offline. Plus, the familiar look and feel of the Microsoft Office system makes it easy to start using the program right away, minimizing wasted time and training costs.

PlayOnLinux 3.6 released

Mon, 06 Jul 2009 10:57:05 -0500

Hello everyone !!

A little news to announce that PlayOnLinux 3.6 is out.

- The novelty this time is the integration of winetricks (which has been modified for PlayOnLinux) by use of the "tricks" command.
This way script writers will be able to use it easily.

I also took this opportunity to clean out the code by deleting useless files and corrected minor bugs.

winetricks 20090705 released

Mon, 06 Jul 2009 09:47:03 -0500

Another winetricks version was released today.

The only interesting change is the addition of shockwave,
and maybe the update to firefox 3.5.

Online as always at
http://kegel.com/wine/winetricks
or
http://winezeug.googlecode.com
(Bug reports to the issue tracker at the above URL.)

Semi-interesting changes since 20090607:

Run Windows apps on Linux with CrossOver Linux 8

Sat, 04 Jul 2009 15:36:58 -0500

I was running Windows, and before it came along, MS-DOS, applications on Unix and Linux for ages. It was never especially easy, but experts could do it. With CodeWeavers' latest CrossOver Linux 8, though, it's become so easy that anyone should be able to do it.

Now, if all your desktop needs are already being met by Linux applications, you don't need to worry with Crossover. But, if like many of us, you still want to use Quicken for your banking or you're stuck with a Web site that refused to work with any Web browser except Internet Explorer, then Crossover Linux 8 is for you.

CrossOver Linux 8 is built on top of the open-source project Wine. This is an implementation of the Windows API (application programming interface) on top of the Unix/Linux operating system family. As far as any given program is concerned, it's running on Windows so you don't have to tweak the applicaton itself to run on Linux. Wine is a very active project, with 16 years of development behind it. In other words, this program has been better-tested for Windows compatibility than almost any native Windows operating system.

Wine 1.1.25 Released

Sat, 04 Jul 2009 00:32:43 -0500

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.

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

Bordeaux for Mac OS X 1.8 beta 1 released

Thu, 02 Jul 2009 11:30:24 -0500

Release notes for Bordeaux for Mac OS X 1.8 Beta1

Thank you for purchasing an advanced copy of Bordeaux for Mac OS X!

STOP NOW AND PLEASE READ! If for any reason you are not satisifed with your purchase, let us know within 30 days and we are happy to provide a full refund.

SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS

Intel Apple Mac (Mac Pro, Mac Mini, iMac, Macbook, Macbook Pro and Macbook Air)
Mac OS X Leopard OS-X 10.5.7 or later is required to install this package.
Updated X11.app from http://xquartz.macosforge.org (At least version 2.3.3.2)

Supported Software

Microsoft Office 2007 and Office2003 Applications (Word, Excel, Powerpnt) Microsoft Project 2003, Visio 2003, and Internet Explorer 6.0 are supported.

Bordeaux 1.8 for FreeBSD Released

Sat, 27 Jun 2009 13:36:30 -0500

Purchase Bordeaux 1.8 for $20.00

Steven Edwards of the Bordeaux Technology Group released Bordeaux 1.8 for FreeBSD today. Bordeaux 1.8 has had many changes on the back end, our build process has been totally rewritten, packaging has been totally rewritten. This release adds Microsoft Office 97, Adobe Photoshop 6 & 7 and Image Ready 3.0 and 7.0 support. Our winetricks script has been synced to the latest official release, Steam should now install and run once again, There has also been many small bug fixes and tweaks.

This complete rewrite gives Bordeaux a much more clean and portable codebase, making new improvements much easier to provide. We already have some exciting things in the works for the next release.

Bordeaux 1.8 has been tested against Wine 1.1.22, 1.1.23 and 1.1.24 thus far.

The cost of Bordeaux 1.8 is $20.00. Anyone who has purchased Bordeaux in the past six months is entitled to a free upgrade. Bordeaux comes with six months of upgrades and support and of course a 30-day money back guarantee.

Three Ways to Install Latest Wine in Ubuntu 9.04 Jaunty Jackalope

Mon, 22 Jun 2009 10:56:07 -0500

I decided to put up this guide which shows how to install the latest Wine release in Ubuntu 9.04 using 3 different methods. The default Jaunty repositories come with Wine 1.0.1, but the latest release is 1.1.24 and a new version is available every two weeks, so here is a tutorial which explains how to get the last Wine release in Ubuntu or Kubuntu Jaunty.

I. Using the Wine PPA
A PPA (Personal Package Archives) is a separate repository which ships newer packages for various applications. You can use a PPA repository for installing newer versions of Amarok, or Wine, or Banshee etc. These repositories are hosted on Launchpad.

In order to get the latest Wine available, you can follow these easy steps:

Wine 1.1.24 Released

Sun, 21 Jun 2009 16:15:55 -0500

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.

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

Bordeaux 1.8 for Linux Released

Thu, 18 Jun 2009 13:27:48 -0500

Purchase Bordeaux 1.8 for $20.00

Steven Edwards of the Bordeaux Technology Group released Bordeaux 1.8 today. Bordeaux 1.8 has had many changes on the back end. The build process has been totally rewritten, packaging has been totally rewritten, the .sh installer is terminal based now and the dependency for pygtk and pango has been removed, the .sh installer will now run on any supported platform Linux, BSD, Solaris and Mac. Our winetricks script has been synced to the latest official release, Steam should now install and run, There has also been many small bug fixes and tweaks.

This complete rewrite gives Bordeaux a much more clean and portable codebase, making new improvements much easier to provide. We already have some exciting things in the works for the next release.

Bordeaux 1.8 has been tested against Wine 1.1.22, 1.1.23 and 1.1.24 thus far... We have i386 and x86_64 deb's, rpm's and sh installers that have been tested on a wide variety of Linux distributions. The cost of Bordeaux 1.8 is $20.00. Anyone who has purchased Bordeaux in the past six months is entitled to a free upgrade. Bordeaux comes with six months of upgrades and support and of course a 30-day money back guarantee.