This version supports all known versions of glibc, including the new Native Posix Thread Library (NPTL) interface. This represents a major technical advance for Wine, as glibc instability has been a problem throughout 2003. Support for the Dreamweaver MX Studio was added. Dynamic loading of OpenGL is provided, which allows a much greater range of unsupported applications to run, especially games such as Half-Life. Miscellaneous bugfixes were made for Microsoft Office, Quicken, Visio, and Lotus Notes.
CodeWeavers CrossOver Office 2.1.0 Released
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Why should Codeweavers do what is in fact someone else job ? I mean, it is as if they are working without pay for Macromedia, Intuit, Adobe, etc. This is ridiculous. There is a point where good faith isn’t justified anymore.
If what theyre saying about Dreamweaver MX is correct I’ll buy this program ASAP!
At last I can use my favorite program on Linux!
Why should Codeweavers do what is in fact someone else job ? I mean, it is as if they are working without pay for Macromedia, Intuit, Adobe, etc. This is ridiculous. There is a point where good faith isn’t justified anymore.
Without Pay? CrossOver Office costs money… $55 for it according to http://www.codeweavers.com/site/products/cxoffice/
Codeweavers are under no obligation to make a version of WINE that supports a lot of popular software – they do it to provide a service to Linux users that feel they must run certain peices of software. Although I agree it would be nice if one or two of the companys who benifit made a donation to the WINE project, it wouldn’t make good business sense.
Thats the world though, I guess.
Sure they are, that’s what we pay them for. 😉
Unfortunately not. It’s bronze medal status. From the website:
The bronze is awarded to applications that install and run, and that can accomplish some portion of their fundamental mission. However, bronze applications generally have enough bugs that we recommend that our customers not depend on their functionality.
The most important aspect of a bronze application is that CodeWeavers makes a firm commitment to bring all bronze applications to the silver level in future releases of CrossOver.
So I don’t think its safe yet.
Dreamweaver ran fine on the previouse version, though installing it was a little tricky and it could be a little temprementle.
Just upgraded to the new version of cxoffice, and from what I can see Dreamweaver seems more stable, and the little wigets that previously crashed it now work fine.
Good job codewavers!
Well… It’s better that it’s working a bit than nothing at all. I guess it’s about:
The text color dialog on the properties window makes Dreamweaver crash, use the text color from the menu instead.
(source: http://frankscorner.org/modules.php?op=modload&name=Sections&file=i…)
Frank’s Corner got a tutorial thing on installing it, but I can’t get it to work…If CrossOver Office can do it easy for me I’ll choose CodeWeavers
I think that it is overpriced for a beta-quality product. However, I would pay for it if upgrades were free for registered users forever.
What warranty they give for me if glibc change again in future, making my paid version obsolete ?
OK, M$ Office is much more expensive, but most of users use pirated copies ou received with new hardware. US$ 60 is very expensive !
My recollection of codeweavers upgrade policy, is that if you pay for the product, you get any upgrades within the next 12 months for free. I don’t think it has changed, unless someone who read the fineprint when they purchased can enlighten me.
In my view, US$55 is cheap when compared to a lot of commercial software applications on the market which have a lot less utility than crossover-office. However, if you don’t want to pay codeweavers to configure wine for you, and automate application installs, then get normal wine, and configure it yourself.
Matt
I like crossover, used it to get macromedia flash working. BTW, this was two versions ago, no problems with the install. I recommend!
heh…you can get better game support from Xover than for the mac (not a flame just a fact…I don’t even play games on my Mac anyway)
I think it would be a good thing to get Xover for Mac just for the games 🙂
I’ve installed CrossOver Office and installed Macromedia Dreamweaver MX, and it went by without a hitch!
I’ve tried out all the functions I use… Site view works great… The colorbox dropdown works (in frankscorner.org it says using this makes DW crash)! I havent found a “weak spot” yet.
Only thing is the fonts in the menu is a bit wrong…but I guess thats just to install the correct font.
I am impressed!
*remove the last point from my list on things I cannot do in Linux* Now I don’t need Windows any more!!!
“Although I agree it would be nice if one or two of the companys who benifit made a donation to the WINE project, it wouldn’t make good business sense.”
Oh, they do. For example they provide server space to the WINE development team.
http://www.timedoctor.org/boycott_winex.php
“Thats the world though, I guess.”
Not the whole world. Just a popular tradition
“If you feel similarly, we suggest buying native Linux games when you see them in retail stores, and online, at places like TuxGames.”
Well, the problem there is the majority of the native games were ported by Loki, sadly no longer in business. I did buy my copy of RTCW from Tux Games, as well as UT2K3. Hopefully Doom 3 will be available from them as well, since ID Software, bless them, believes in releasing Linux binaries
Has anyone tried Fireworks MX?
Yes I did. It installs fine but unfortunately won’t run saying missing resource file. The same situation as in previous release. I am desperately waiting for Fireworks suppport because all I need is slices support in Gİmp and they are not planning to do that
Hope dies the last…
I have tried the last version of crossover and didn’t like it too much. i don’t run msoffice anyway and there were a view other application i couldn’t get to work properly (like Macromedia Flash, it wouldn’t install or Redshift)- this could be due to my configuration and my lack off time to really try and get it going. I am using win4lin if i really need a windows programme and it is fine for flash and redshift and some other little things. having said that i haven’t booted into win4lin for the past 3 months – so i guess i don’t really need windows anymore.
“Well, the problem there is the majority of the native games were ported by Loki, sadly no longer in business. I did buy my copy of RTCW from Tux Games, as well as UT2K3. Hopefully Doom 3 will be available from them as well, since ID Software, bless them, believes in releasing Linux binaries
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Would be awesome indeed. Personally i wouldn’t buy it since i have a TNT2 :p but then again it’s good to support a Linux-friendly company. Btw Icullus.org currently ports games to Linux. For example, they ported Duke3d. Works very good imo!
About Win4lin: you still need a copy of Windows when using Win4lin/VMware/Bochs/Plex86 and Windows apps. This is not the case with WINE. Dunno what’s faster…
Dunno what’s faster…
I remember reading somewhere that Wine is faster. Because you don’t need the “Windows-thing” to be behind…lesser things to load.