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Bordeaux 1.6 For FreeBSD and PC-BSD Released

Posted by kdawson on from the old-wine-in-new-cellars dept.

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."

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  1. Re:What? by slugtastic · · Score: 5, Informative

    The Bordeaux Technology Group is a software services and development company specializing in Windows compatibility software. Users of Linux systems from time to time find themselves in the need to run specialized Windows software. The Bordeaux suite enables access to these programs and data in a seamless and low cost manner without requiring licensing of Microsoft Technology.

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  2. Google Earth? by bcmm · · Score: 2, Informative

    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? I thought FreeBSD had extensive compatibility layers for running Linux executable built-in, and a Linux Qt application would look and feel more native.

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    # cat /dev/mem | strings | grep -i llama
    Damn, my RAM is full of llamas.