The Wine development release 1.7.4 is now available. See what’s new in this release: Support for Cocoa-style full-screen mode in the Mac driver. More preparation work for the Direct3D command stream. A number of Winsock improvements. Various bug fixes. The source is available now. Binary packages are in the process of being built. Once done,… Continue reading Wine 1.7.4 Released, Upgrade in Ubuntu 13.04/12.04
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Wine 1.7.3 Development Released, upgrade in Ubuntu
The Wine development release 1.7.3 has been released with improvements and bug fixes. See what’s new in this release: New version of the Gecko engine based on Firefox 24. Preparation work for the Direct3D command stream. Window management fixes in the Mac driver. Support for IPHLPAPI functions on Android. Various bug fixes. The source is… Continue reading Wine 1.7.3 Development Released, upgrade in Ubuntu
Upgrade / Install Wine 1.7.1 via PPA in Ubuntu 13.04, 13.10, 12.04
The Wine development release 1.7.1 is now available in Wine PPA for Ubuntu 13.10 Saucy, Ubuntu 13.04 Raring, Ubuntu 12.04 Precise, Ubuntu 12.10 Quantal and their derivatives. What’s new in Wine 1.7 and 1.7.1: Support for keyed event objects. Support for the “init once” synchronization mechanism. Activation context support for DLLs, typelibs, and COM classes.… Continue reading Upgrade / Install Wine 1.7.1 via PPA in Ubuntu 13.04, 13.10, 12.04
How to Install Google Sketchup 2013 Ubuntu 13.04
Want to install and use Google Sketchup on Ubuntu 13.04 Raring? Well, this simple tutorial will show you how to do it. With the help of Wine software, you can install and use Windows software easily in Ubuntu. Wine is a compatibility layer capable of running Windows applications on several POSIX-compliant operating systems, including Ubuntu… Continue reading How to Install Google Sketchup 2013 Ubuntu 13.04
Install Wine 1.6 Final on Ubuntu 13.10, 13.04, 12.10, 12.04
The Wine team finally released the stable version of Wine 1.6. This release represents 16 months of development effort and around 10,000 individual changes. The main highlights are the new Mac driver, the full support for window transparency, and the new Mono package for .NET applications support. It also contains a lot of improvements across… Continue reading Install Wine 1.6 Final on Ubuntu 13.10, 13.04, 12.10, 12.04