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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 Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    A Bordeaux wine is any wine produced in the Bordeaux region of France. Average vintages produce over 700 million bottles of Bordeaux wine, although in good vintages, this total can exceed over 900 million, ranging from large quantities of everyday table wine, to some of the most expensive and prestigious wines in the world.

  2. 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.

    Read more...

  3. terrible, terrible write-up by Lord+Ender · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Unless we are talking about an extremely popular app (Linux, Firefox), the first or second line of the summary should tell what the hell the app is!!

    I am amazed that the slashdot editors still don't get this after so many years.

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  4. Re:WTF is this doing on the frontpage? by neowolf · · Score: 2, 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.

  5. Re:WTF is this doing on the frontpage? by Anonymous Coward · · 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.

  6. Re:No TLA's required by KlaymenDK · · Score: 2, Insightful

    ...and yes, I do understand that it's a fun pun for a WINE uh...derivative? clone? subcomponent?

    The web site lacks a proper About page, and none of the press release and other stuff really explains what the difference is between this and plain WINE.

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  7. 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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    1. Re:Google Earth? by cbhacking · · Score: 2, 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).

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  8. Meh. by Deagol · · Score: 2, Interesting
    Seems to be an add-on to WINE? This page tells you to install WINE. Then you install Bordeaux. No docs for FreeBSD, as far as I can tell.

    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.

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  9. Re:WTF is this doing on the frontpage? by fgouget · · 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 for instance.

    Interestingly, based on the wine-patches.tar.gz 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).