Linked by Thom Holwerda on Fri 29th Jan 2010 22:10 UTC, submitted by twickline
The Bordeaux Technology Group released Bordeaux 2.0.0 for Linux today. "Bordeaux 2.0.0 marks major progress over older releases. With version 2.0.0 and onward we bundle our own Wine build and many tools and libraries that Wine depends upon. With this release we bundle Wine 1.1.36, Cabextract, Mozilla Gecko, Unzip, Wget and other support libraries and tools. We have improved support for Microsoft Office 2007 (Word, Excel and PowerPoint) and preliminary support for Internet Explorer 7 in this release, there has also been many small bug fixes and tweaks on the back-end."
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Member since:2005-07-06
Thanks for the post. My only concern about Bordeaux is that there is less of a community compared to Wine and Cross over.
For example the application database:
http://appdb.winehq.org/
http://www.codeweavers.com/compatibility/
Its hard to tell what you are paying for without there being a Demo version or in-depth reviews of the product (At some point I would like to write a review of Wine for OSnews).
Edited 2010-01-31 22:39 UTC
Member since:2005-07-06
I'm tempted at looking at Bordeaux in the near future if I ever move from Mac over to OpenSolaris but the big question is the support policy regarding future updates, the quality of the office support - for me I'm quite happy to be at least one release behind.
Btw, I am not too clued up on things but is there an ETA on Wine 1.2 being released? there is a heck of alot of work being done, I just hope that OpenSolaris going to be a first class citizen with full support rather than the bastard red headed step child of the family.
Member since:2005-12-31
"the big question is the support policy regarding future updates"
You get six months of updates with your purchase.
Here is the Wine 1.2 bug list :
http://bugs.winehq.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=UNCONFIRMED&bug_statu...
Cheers,
Tom
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Hello,
Bordeaux is Wine and many of the tools it depends upon bundled with a simple GTK front-end. In the 1.x release we only had a front-end to Vanilla Wine, like Wine-Doors, PlayOnLinux, Q4Wine etc. etc..
The problem with this approach is you have to focus on one single Wine release preferably Wine 1.0.1 (stable) the only problem is almost NO one now uses Wine 1.0.1 and everyone uses it seems a different development version. And anyone who knows anything about Wine knows what works in one release isn't guaranteed to work in the next release (regressions).
So with 2.0.0 and onward we are going to bundle our own Wine release with Bordeaux. This helps us on many fronts, for one we can add hacks, workarounds, patches whatever you prefer to call them to our release.
Second thing is we know what version/build people are using so it helps us tremendously as far as support goes.
Third thing is we can bundle our own tool set and have a unified package.
Bordeaux runs on Linux, Solaris, OpenSolaris, FreeBSD, PC-BSD, Mac OSX at this time. And we plan to have a release for StormOS in the near future.
The front-end as ive already pointed out is still just a simple GTK app, but now that we have most of the grunt work on the back-end done we plan to clean it up and add more features to the front-end in version 2.2
Our cellar manager, e.g wineprefix manager will also see some improvements in our next release.
Bordeaux cost $20.00 for Linux, BSD, Mac and $25.00 for Solaris at this time. But we plan to increase the price to $25.00 across the board when 2.2 ships... Just to let everyone here know.
Also, I posted some screenshots here : http://www.wine-reviews.net/wine-reviews/bordeaux/bordeaux-200-for-...
Office 2007 and Left 4 Dead 2 in Steam
Cheers,
Tom