Google releases Picasa 2.7 for Linux
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| Google has released Picasa version 2.7 for Linux, which promises many of the
| same improvements of the PC version, including (drum roll, please) uploading
| and downloading from Picasa Web Albums.
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http://www.downloadsquad.com/2008/04/17/google-releases-picasa-2-7-for-linux/
This helps in improving Wine.
Last week:
The making of Wine (how to make Windows apps merrier with Linux)
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| Flash forward to today. It's been the better part of a decade and Microsoft
| has not been toppled by anyone's reckoning. However it did release Vista -
| perhaps the most hated Windows operating system of all time (though it's hard
| to beat Windows ME on that count). Enterprises badly want alternatives to
| Windows. Desktop Linux has come a long way since 1999, too. and (who knew?)
| the Mac has become the ultra chic, must-have PC. The enterprise has its
| alternatives - if it can only get those mission critical Windows apps to work
| flawlessly. Wine, in its commercial form, has been doing so for years.
|
| So, in 2008, the 1.0 version will hit the streets and the timing could not be
| more perfect. White admits that not every Windows application will work
| flawlessly on Wine, but many a critical one for the enterprise has been
| specifically optimized.
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http://www.networkworld.com/community/node/26915
Recent:
Google behind Photoshop's new Linux compatibility
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| "About 200 patches were committed to winehq, and as of wine-0.9.54, Photoshop
| CS2 is quite usable," Kegel noted in a separate post.
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http://www.apcmag.com/8034/google_behind_photoshops_new_linux_compatibility
Play Windows Games on Linux
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| Linux Journal Gadget Guy Shawn Powers walks you through how to play Windows
| games on Linux.
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http://www.linuxjournal.com/video/play-windows-games-linux
Does WINE + Linux support more Windows apps than Vista?
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| WINE supports most of the applications which are made for Windows
| 2.0 up to Windows XP. WINE has the ability to run different versions
| of IE, run most of Adobe's products, run World of Warcraft, Half Life
| 2, Microsoft Office 2003, XP, 2000 and 97, Visio, Quicken,
|
| * Command & Conquer 3 Tiberium Wars
| * Need for Speed Carbon
|
| [...]
|
| What about drivers, hardware support, and upgrades?
|
| Want to upgrade you XP to Vista? no chance. might as well do a fresh
| install and shell out $300.
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http://jagtalon.wordpress.com/2007/04/30/does-wine-linux-support-more-apps-than-vista/
Office 2007 on Linux with Wine install guide
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| This is with a clean configuration directory and running in a 1024x768
| virtual desktop.
|
| Wine version tested: 0.9.58
| Windows version emulated: XP
| Office version: Microsoft Office 2007
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http://wine-review.blogspot.com/2008/03/office-2007-on-linux-with-wine-install.html
Does WINE + Linux support more Windows apps than Vista?
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| WINE supports most of the applications which are made for Windows
| 2.0 up to Windows XP. WINE has the ability to run different versions
| of IE, run most of Adobe's products, run World of Warcraft, Half Life
| 2, Microsoft Office 2003, XP, 2000 and 97, Visio, Quicken...
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http://jagtalon.wordpress.com/2007/04/30/does-wine-linux-support-more-apps-than-vista/
Wine 1.0 On The Menu For Desktop Linux Users
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| It looks like Wine's time has finally come: Version 1.0 of the Windows
| emulation software is now slated for a June release. And Linux users almost
| certainly have Google -- or, at least, Google's money -- to thank for moving
| things along.
|
| At this point, Wine has been in development nearly 15 years. No, that's not a
| typo, and there shouldn't be a decimal between the 1 and 5. Of course, for
| most of that time, Wine was an all-volunteer effort; even at the best of
| times, the project was often sorely lacking in QA resources.
|
| Codeweavers, which now sponsors Wine development and uses the software as the
| basis for its own Crossover Linux product, certainly helped to pick up the
| development pace: Today, Wine supports nearly 1,300 Windows apps to one
| degree or another, including outstanding support for Adobe Photoshop CS2.
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http://www.bmighty.com/blog/main/archives/2008/03/wine_10_on_the.html
Wine 1.0 Release Criteria updated
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| Dan in return modified the release criteria and Alexandre thought the new
| changes looked good. Later in the thread a couple people asked about small
| janitorial patches, and it was agreed if the changes were low risk they
| should be applied and go into Wine 1.0 with larger patches being deferred to
| Wine 1.1.0
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http://wine-review.blogspot.com/2008/03/wine-10-release-criteria-updated.html
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