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CodeWeavers Ports Chromium to Linux and Mac OS X

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We've written about the folks at CodeWeavers before. They make a customized, commercial version of Wine called CrossOverLinux. and have been major contributors to Wine. (Wine allows Linux users to run Windows applications.) This post from the CodeWeavers blog details how the company has succesfully ported versions of Chromium--the open source core of Google's Chrome browser--for Mac and Linux. The ports are free and available here. You won't want to run these ports as your main browser, but as proof-of-concept for cross-platform versions of Chrome, this is good news.


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Linux Users on NBC's Olympics Videos: We Don't Get No Respect

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Where is Rodney Dangerfield when we need him? There are some heated messages flying around in the Ubuntu forums because NBC has announced that it will offer its online video coverage of the Beijing Olympics to Internet Explorer and Firefox users on the Mac and Windows, but not to Linux browser users. This means the considerable amount of online video available to other users is out of reach of the Linux crowd, writes one forum poster. You wonder why they'd want to kiss off 2%-3% of the desktops, writes another. Would it really be so difficult to offer video to users of Firefox on Linux?


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Today's Highlights from LinuxWorld

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As the LinuxWorld trade show continues in San Francisco, lots of announcements and events are arriving, although there are some rumblings about the show catering too much to the establishment. There is an Installfest going on, where volunteers are building Linux-based systems for needy schools. If you remember the gOS, which was the Linux OS inside the $199 Wal-Mart gPC, it is now reaching out to Google Gadgets, and preloads WINE for users who want to reach out to Windows applications. There are also several awards being given to some of the innovative products at the show. Here's the upshot.


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SourceForge's Community Choice Awards: Winners Named

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We covered the SourceForge Community Choice Awards announcement in early July, and now the winners have been named. This marks the first year when SourceForge's awards for the best open source projects have been open to all open source projects. OpenOffice is far and away the big winner, but I was pleased to see some lesser known projects get recognition, too. Here, below the fold, are the winners.


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Wine 1.0 Released After 15 Years of Development

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In what may be one of the longest development and testing processes in the history of programming (15 years, actually), Wine 1.0 is now available for free download at the project's Web site. Commonly used to play Windows-only games on computers with a Linux operating system, thousands of other applications and tools also work under Wine, including such notables as Photoshop CS2 and WinRAR.

 



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Wine About to Hit Version 1.0

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The folks behind open source Windows API implementation Wine announced on Friday that version 1.0RC1 has been released. While application version numbers are a somewhat arbitrary measure, this seems like a good time to celebrate the maturity of this project, which has been active for 15 years now. For organizations and users committed to open source operating systems, but still needing specific Windows applications, Wine is an essential lifeline.



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What Does Wine 1.0 Mean for Business?

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This is a 1.0 that I wasn't sure would ever come. No, I'm not talking about the Duke Nukem game that's been vaporware for the last decade or so. I'm talking about Wine 1.0, which is slated for release on June 6th of this year. That's a mere 15 years after development was started.

Wine, if you're not already familiar with it, is an application that allows Windows apps to run unmodified on Linux and other *nix operating systems.



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