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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.

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  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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