Public Betas For CrossOver Mac and Linux

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Tuesday October 3, 2006 @09:59AM from the new-wine-in-mac-bottles dept.

Jeremy White writes, "I am happy to announce that we have put up a new version of our public beta of CrossOver Mac as well as an equivalent public beta of CrossOver Linux. For Mac users, this release includes fixes to Internet Explorer, fixes for many cases where programs would crash when run (e.g. Microsoft Office 2000 and similar older applications), fixes for Outlook 2003, and a range of other improvements. For Linux users, the big highlights are support for World of Warcraft and many Steam based games (including Half Life 2 and Counterstrike), as well as support for Outlook 2003. Version 6 also represents a major improvement in the core of Wine since version 5 of CrossOver, so you may be pleasantly surprised as you try running unsupported applications."

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Re:linux / wine noob question, pls help by lakeland · 2006-10-03 11:08 · Score: 0, Redundant

As I said to him. Find out, post the answer to the compatibility list, and we'll all know.

If you care about this program, it is what - 20 mins work - to run the installer in wine and see. Add in 5 mins for adding it to the database and you've spent half an hour finding out something you wanted to know, and helped your fellow man and that anonymous coward.

Now, I have better things to do with my time than trying out programs I don't use. For the programs I do use, you'll find my compatibility reports listed along with everybody elses. There is what, about a million windows programs? I can easily enough blow half an hour on the half-dozen I care about and if everybody else does the same then we'll cover every program.