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On April 26, Alexandre Julliard has announced yet another development release of the awesome Wine software, which can be used to emulate Windows apps on Linux.
Wine 1.5.29 brings JavaScript performance improvements, input method support in the Mac driver, support for TLS 1.1 and 1.2 connections on Mac OS X, as well... |
27 April 2013
02:10 GMT |
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Yet another development release of the mighty Wine software has been announced earlier today, March 15, by Alexandre Julliard.Wine 1.5.26 improves the URL cache, fixes various issues for ARM binaries, adds OpenGL, drag & drop and clipboard support in the Mac driver, and it no longer supports the SPARC platform.Wine 1... |
15 March 2013
18:20 GMT |
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Most people are well aware of the fact that those who occasionally indulge in a glass or two of wine are likely to lead a healthier and longer life than those who refrain themselves from such habits. Thus, it is a commonly held belief that wine is quite successful in safeguarding people against various heart diseas... |
4 March 2013
10:09 GMT |
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Alexandre Julliard announced a few minutes ago, March 1, that a new development version of the Wine application is now available for download, bringing assorted bug fixes and improvements, among which we can mention:• Improved support for mouse cursor in the Mac driver;• Fixed right-to-left support in RichE... |
1 March 2013
17:03 GMT |
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This past Valentine's Day, a Napa Valley-based winery went public with the news that it was to soon debut a rather peculiar experiment.
Long story short, Mira Winery was getting ready to send four cases of 2009 Cabernet Sauvignon to the bottom of Charleston Harbor, South Carolina, and then try to figure out wh... |
21 February 2013
15:51 GMT |
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Dr. Kathryn O'Sullivan has recently published a new report stating that, all things considered, the beer belly is nothing more and nothing less than a myth. More precisely, said nutritionist, who now has roughly 20 years of experience in the field, maintains that beer actually has fewer calories than beverages... |
13 February 2013
04:36 GMT |
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id Software has habit of releasing their engines as open source, but a statement made by John Carmack, on Twitter, revealed an interesting information.
People will remember that id Software was one of the few big game developers that thought about the Linux platform way before there were any hints that the open sour... |
4 February 2013
16:00 GMT |
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Running Windows applications on Android might be closer than you think as work on porting Wine compatibility layer to the mobile OS is being carried out.
Wine on Android has already been demoed by Alexandre Julliard, the developer behind the project, at the FOSDEM event that took place over the weekend in Brussels. ... |
4 February 2013
05:56 GMT |
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CrossOver Linux, an application based on Wine which allows users to install popular Windows applications and PC games on a Linux computer, is now at version 12.1.0 CrossOver Linux is making great strides for Linux and the new version fixes quite a few problems, not to mentions a nasty bug on Unity. “On Linux,... |
24 January 2013
02:38 GMT |
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PlayOnLinux, a software based on Wine (Wine is not an emulator) which allows users to easily install and use numerous games and apps designed to run with Microsoft Windows, has reached version 4.1.9.Highlights of PlayOnLinux 4.1.9:• The packages page has been enhanced. Little by little, users will see the real n... |
19 January 2013
13:22 GMT |
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StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty is a game developed by Blizzard, but it's only developed by the Windows platfom, leaving the Linux users to find other ways of playing it.
The only way to play a Windows game on a Linux system is through Wine and StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty has just become a gold Platinum membe... |
10 January 2013
09:09 GMT |
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CodeWeavers has released CrossOver 12 which now incorporates the company’s experimental Mac Driver which frees Windows programs from the X Window System, for interaction with the screen and keyboard.The developers caution that the Mac Driver feature is currently experimental. CodeWeavers also confirms that it &... |
13 December 2012
12:51 GMT |
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Even if a lot of games have been launched for Linux this year and more are expected to arrive in 2013, the Windows platform is still home for the best titles. Until this status quo changes, there will always be Wine.
Wine is a framework that can be used to run Windows applications in a Linux environment. Some titles... |
28 November 2012
15:08 GMT |
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Blizzard finally understands that there are a lot of Linux users out there playing their games in Linux distributions, through Wine, and that they are banning them wrongfully.
We reported a while back about the open conflict between the Linux community and Blizzard, the publishers and developers of Diablo 3.
Blizza... |
17 November 2012
06:23 GMT |
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Blizzard is still banning people running Diablo 3 on Linux, but the community is starting to take action.
We reported a few times in the past that Blizzard was banning, indiscriminately, people who were playing Diablo 3 legitimately.
The theory is that the Linux emulation done through Wine is somehow misinterprete... |
9 November 2012
11:30 GMT |
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Police in Wenzhou, Zhejiang Province – China, are in shock after finding 10,000 bottles of Chateau Lafite red wine, in an abandoned house.
The bottles now all belong to the owner of the deserted mansion, a Chinese man identified only as Zou, Business Insider writes. The house had allegedly stayed empty for nine year... |
9 November 2012
07:34 GMT |
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An online petition asks the developers of Guild Wars 2, ArenaNet, to port the game for the Linux platform, or at least make it work with Wine.
Guild Wars 2 is a massively multiplayer online role-playing game that uses a less popular subscription method, but which is far more advantageous for the player. Gamers only ... |
9 November 2012
02:59 GMT |
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Amazon may be getting more and more interested in selling you digital movies, music, books and so on and so forth. But it's still the world's largest online and the largest retail store. And it's getting bigger, adding more stuff to sell, like wine. This is only in the US, but if you're itching ... |
8 November 2012
15:11 GMT |
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CrossOver Linux, an application based on Wine which allows users to install popular Windows applications and PC games on a Linux computer, is now at version 11.3. A week ago, the developers of CrossOver Linux, CodeWeavers, had a bold promotion and made their shareware product free, on October 31. All the users wh... |
8 November 2012
14:21 GMT |
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CrossOver Product Manager Josh DuBois has contacted us with news that CodeWeavers has just released an updated version of the Wine-based utility for running Windows software on a Mac or Linux PC.
CrossOver 11.3.0 includes few changes on OS X front (more has been done on the Linux front this time around), but it&rsqu... |
8 November 2012
05:47 GMT |
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The people who happened to be close to the University of Natural Sciences in Malaysia only a few days ago had every chance of coming face to face with a monkey which knew a thing or two about wine.
Photographer and physics professor Mihail Nazarov says that, when he first saw the monkey, it was busy trying to figur... |
2 November 2012
16:01 GMT |
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CodeWeavers is providing a copy of CrossOver for free to all comers this Halloween, Wednesday, October 31, from 00:00 until 23:59 pm, Central Daylight Time. Newcomers will simply get a free copy of the app, while existing customers will get a free 12-month extension added to their entitlement. To sign up for a free ... |
31 October 2012
11:53 GMT |
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Diablo III is the latest action role-playing game released by Blizzard Entertainment and more importantly, it can be played on Linux, under Wine. The only problem with this solution is that it will probably get users banned. Right after the launch of Diablo III, on May 15, there were a flurry of bans involving peopl... |
25 October 2012
03:26 GMT |
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Soon after the launch of OS X 10.8.2, the second maintenance update to Mountain Lion, CrossOver customers reported issues with the performance of the application. CodeWeavers, the developers, have confirmed the issue and are advising everyone who hasn’t yet upgraded to sit still. CrossOver is a Wine-based appl... |
21 September 2012
11:51 GMT |
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Alexandre Julliard announced a few hours ago, August 31st, development version 1.5.12 of the Wine app, which brings assorted bugfixes and improvements, among which we can mention: • Individual joysticks can now be disabled;• Improved support for D3DX9 constant tables;• Various XRandR improvements;&bull... |
31 August 2012
15:29 GMT |
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Alexandre Julliard announced on August 17th, a new development version of the Wine app, which brings assorted bugfixes and improvements, among which we can mention:• Multi-channel support in the ALSA driver has been updated;• A big X11 lock has been removed;• Support for pair positioning adjustments in... |
18 August 2012
06:50 GMT |
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Alexandre Julliard announced last night, July 31st, a new development version of the Wine app, which brings assorted bugfixes and improvements, among which we can mention:• Updated Gecko engine, now based on Mozilla Firefox 14;• OpenGL support in the DIB engine by using the libOSMesa library;• Direct3D... |
1 August 2012
04:10 GMT |
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Alexandre Julliard announced on July 17th that a new development version of the Wine app is now available for download, bringing assorted bugfixes and improvements, among which we can mention: • Support for XRandr 1.2 and XRandr 1.3;• Support for GPOS font tables in Uniscribe;• HLSL compiler received p... |
18 July 2012
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Wine, a piece of software that aims to provide Linux users the “luxury” of running Windows software, is getting more and more important games to work. We’ve figured users would like to know what important titles they can play. A few years back, users could run only a handful of Windows games and m... |
7 July 2012
04:08 GMT |
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In spite of some rumors that Blizzard is banning people running Diablo III on Linux platform, emulated through Wine, it appears that this is not the case.
The whole shenanigan was started on Blizzard's official forums by some gamers complaining about being banned after playing Diablo III on Linux.
Blizzard ha... |
4 July 2012
10:36 GMT |
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Alexandre Julliard announced on July 3rd that a new development version of the Wine app is now available for download, bringing assorted bugfixes and improvements.
Wine 1.5.8 is yet another maintenance release for fixing known issues and improving the overall stability of the app.
Highlights of Wine 1.5.8:
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4 July 2012
00:51 GMT |
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Josh DuBois, CrossOver product manager, is happy to announce that his company released CrossOver 11.2.0 Mac OS X with support for the upcoming OS X Mountain Lion, and other added benefits. “The main benefit of CrossOver 11.2.0 on the Mac is that it should run on Apple's upcoming release of OS X 10.8, &lsq... |
26 June 2012
10:10 GMT |
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Alexandre Julliard, the leader of the Wine project, announced yesterday, June 15th, that a new stable version of the famous framework used to run Windows applications on Linux, is available for download. Wine 1.4.1 is the first point release of the stable Wine 1.4 branch, bringing only bug fixes and translation upd... |
16 June 2012
11:41 GMT |
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Wine 1.5.6, a new development version of the famous framework used to run Windows applications on Linux, has been announced by Alexandre Julliard, the leader of the Wine project. Wine 1.5.6 brings some much needed updates and represents an important milestone in the development of Wine (Wine Is Not an Emulator).Highl... |
9 June 2012
12:58 GMT |
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The Wine development team announced a few days ago, May 25th, that a new development version of the famous framework used to run Windows applications on Linux, has been announced by Alexandre Julliard, the leader of the Wine project. Highlights of Wine 1.5.5: • Support for Mono, which can be installed as an a... |
28 May 2012
11:31 GMT |
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People running Windows applications on their Mac using CrossOver have a new version to download and install. The new CrossOver 11.1.0 supports the newly-released Diablo III video game and adds a smoother installation process for Microsoft Office along with several fixes related to printing. Printing has been fixed f... |
23 May 2012
18:31 GMT |
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Despite the recent revival led by the reboot of Sam & Max and by more recent releases like The Walking Dead, there’s still a big divide between what adventure games can offer and what gamers are expecting them to deliver.
Dan Connors, the chief executive officer of Telltale Games, has told Siliconera that, &ld... |
18 May 2012
15:01 GMT |
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Wine 1.5.4, a new development version of the famous framework used to run Windows applications on Linux, has been announced by Alexandre Julliard, the leader of the Wine project. Wine 1.5.4 brings some much needed updates and represents an important milestone in the development of Wine (Wine Is Not an Emulator). H... |
12 May 2012
04:52 GMT |
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Wine 1.5.3, a new development version of the famous framework used to run Windows applications on Linux, has been announced by Alexandre Julliard, the leader of the Wine project. Wine 1.5.3 brings some much needed updates and represents an important milestone in the development of Wine (Wine Is Not an Emulator). Hi... |
30 April 2012
02:45 GMT |
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Google has announced last evening, April 20th, that it will no longer offer the Picasa software for the Linux platform. Picasa for Linux was launched by Google back in 2006, as a Wine-based version. The last version of Picasa for Linux was 3.0."We launched a WINE-based version of Picasa for Linux in 2006 as a Google ... |
21 April 2012
07:45 GMT |
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CDlinux or Compact Distro Linux is a compact distribution of GNU/Linux that now has reached version 0.9.7.1. CDlinux can be used as a “mobile OS” or as an admin/rescue tool. The latest version, 0.9.7.1, is built from scratch and has proven to be stable enough. Highlights of Cdlinux 0.9.7.1: · L... |
19 March 2012
04:05 GMT |
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After six release candidates and over 20 months of hard work, the Wine development team proudly announced a few hours ago, March 7th, the immediate availability for download of the final and stable Wine 1.4 app. Wine 1.4 comes with some amazing features, such as a brand-new DIB graphics engine, full support for cha... |
7 March 2012
17:31 GMT |
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Wine 1.4 RC1, a new development version of the famous framework used to run Windows applications on Linux, has been announced by Alexandre Julliard, the leader of the Wine project. This version is the first release candidate for the Wine 1.4 branch and represents an important milestone in the development of Wine (Win... |
30 January 2012
02:30 GMT |
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South Africa is the place where green technologies guarantee that farmers use just the right amount of water. One major vineyard is enrolled in the GrapeLook and its owner hopes to obtain a more than decent harvest due to satellite information combined with field measurements.
All in all, this method helps preserv... |
22 December 2011
09:37 GMT |
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CrossOver Games, a commercial graphical user interface built on the latest versions of Wine, is now at version 10.2.0. CodeWeavers, the developers of CrossOver Games interface, have released a maintenance update. Without any further ado, here are the changes found in CrossOver Games 10.2.0:· The behavior of Pl... |
30 November 2011
05:00 GMT |
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Our bodies are a constant battleground between good and bad free radicals, chemicals that have been linked to a host of negative health effects. However, experts say that certain foods and drinks may be used to tip the balance in our favor.Past studies have linked red wine, green tea and coffee with a positive health... |
24 August 2011
08:21 GMT |
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The following article was created to inform our readers about popular native Windows games and applications which install and run under Linux-based operating systems, with the help of the Wine software.We have recently discovered that many people have no idea that games such as the popular World of Warcraft, Call of ... |
5 January 2011
10:20 GMT |
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CodeWeavers have announced the release of CrossOver 9.2.0, a free update to both versions of the Wine-based software (CrossOver Mac, CrossOver Games). The new installment merges with Wine release 1.2.1 which includes bug fixes for many applications, according to the developers.CrossOver integrates Wine to allow Mac u... |
20 October 2010
04:56 GMT |
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Twitter has revealed that the "Twitter Wine" everyone has been waiting for since the announcement last year is finally shipping to those who pre-ordered and is available for sale for everyone else. Twitter may be one of the hottest properties on the web right now, but it's sticking to what it knows. It has recen... |
27 September 2010
09:24 GMT |
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CodeWeavers has released major new versions of its flagship solutions aimed at providing support for Windows applications on Mac OS X without the need of a virtual machine. CrossOver Mac allows users to install popular Windows applications and games on Mac OS X, while CrossOver Games specifically targets the gamer in... |
29 July 2010
06:04 GMT |
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