Bordeaux 1.6 For FreeBSD and PC-BSD Released 53
Tom Wickline writes "Steven Edwards of the Bordeaux Technology Group released Bordeaux 1.6 for FreeBSD and PC-BSD today. Bordeaux 1.6 comes with added support for Google's Chrome Web Browser, Google Earth, and Google Picasa. In addition, Cellar support has improved; you can now delete and install into an existing Cellar. There have also been many small bug fixes and tweaks on the backend to improve the speed and reliability of all the supported applications."
Re:WTF is this doing on the frontpage? (Score:3, Interesting)
I don't think Codeweavers officially supports BSD, which is what this is about.
I am kind of tired of what amounts to blatant advertising as Slashdot posts though.
Re:WTF is this doing on the frontpage? (Score:2, Interesting)
This looks like some proprietary wine ripoff. Don't buy from these, buy from Codeweavers instead!
a) Codeweavers is a "proprietary wine ripoff", too.
b) Using the wine sources in accordance with their licence is not a "rip-off"; it's one of the uses the developers intended (had they not, wine would have been under the GPL or a similar licence instead).
That being said, yeah, I agree that this is a blatant advertising post that shouldn't be on Slashdot at all, let alone on the front page. But I guess in these troubled economic times, kdawson needs any extra income he can lay his grubby little hands on.
Re:WTF is this doing on the frontpage? (Score:1, Interesting)
It's just another slashvertisement, surely you're used to this kind of crap by now?
Meh. (Score:3, Interesting)
Since it relies on WINE, I guess those of us who run a pure 64-bit environment are still screwed. If I wanted to pay money and be tied to i386, I'd drop my money on Win4BSD -- assuming it works as well as it did on Linux (Win4Lin) when I tried it a few years back.
It's a bit of a bummer, as FreeBSD's PC emulation options are limited. AFAIK, Qemu is the only viable option right now, but it has known issues with crashing under FreeBSD/amd64 with certain (most) Windows versions. Hopefully VirtualBox will be made to run under FreeBSD in the near future.
Why Use Proprietary Wine? (Score:1, Interesting)
I don't mind the proprietary Wine vendors. However I am mystified by how they often claim Wine is difficult to install and configure. Any Free/Open Source OS likely already has excellent tools to help users download and install Wine (I know mine does). If that's the only problem these vendors solve then are they just making money off spreading FUD or is there some other force driving their (presumed) profits?
Re:Google Earth? (Score:3, Interesting)
Google Earth has been written in Qt with a native Linux version for quite some time now. Wouldn't it be easier to use the Linux version?
Wait, does that actually run now? Last I heard it wasn't even beta quality.
Also, YMMV but I've had better luck running Windows apps in Wine on Linux than I have running Linux apps (through compatibility) on FreeBSD (even ones that are supposed to work, like Flash).
Re:WTF is this doing on the frontpage? (Score:2, Interesting)
Because as everybody knows Codeweavers fully supports FreeBSD 7.x, wait, you say that it's very early stages and doesn't actually run on any of the recent versions?
Although CodeWeavers doesn't officially support FeeeBSD, we are unofficially relatively active on the FreeBSD front. See bug 16023 [winehq.org] for instance.
Interestingly, based on the wine-patches.tar.gz [bordeauxgroup.com] posted on Bordeaux's page, they don't use my work, which means they don't work on recent FreeBSD either (or the binaries they distribute don't match the source they publish which would be contrary to the LGPL).