Wine Reviews reports that Bordeaux 1.2 has been released

"Bordeaux 1.2 was released today and its a major upgrade over the initial 1.0 release, version 1.2 comes with Office 2007 support, better IE support and cellar support. Cellars are in short just another name for bottle support, with the new cellar support each application or game can be installed into its own wineprefix "cellar" and on top of that you can install unsupported applications and games into their own unsupported cellar. This gives you a sandbox to test in while leaving your supported applications and games in a safe environment.

The cost of Bordeaux 1.2 is $20.00. Anyone who bought 1.0 can upgrade to this release for free as an incentive for being brave enough to try out the initial release of Bordeaux. Bordeaux comes with six months of upgrades and support and of course a 30-day money back guarantee."

>> Bordeaux 1.2 Released with Cellars support

DeveloperWorks posted an article on PHP 6

"Discover PHP's new features and syntax improvements and see how they will take this already-popular scripting language to the next level. Learn how Unicode support, Web 2.0 features, and other changes make PHP V6 more robust, as well as more international."

>> The future of PHP

Phoronix reports that Valve Software porting their Source Engine to Linux

"There have been rumors since last year that Valve may be serious about porting Source games to Linux after Valve Software began seeking a senior software engineer with the responsibility of porting Windows-based games to the Linux platform. Valve Software has yet to officially announce Linux clients for any of its software, but at Phoronix we have received information confirming that Valve is indeed porting its very popular Source engine to the Linux platform."

>> Valve's Source Engine Coming To Linux

Phoronix published an article on the VIA Linux situation

"Last month we reported on VIA's new open-source driver efforts that was announced at the LF Austin Summit. This new strategy involves VIA providing the open-source community with NDA-free hardware specifications, code, and other resources -- in a similar fashion to what ATI/AMD and Intel have been doing for some time now. However, not everyone has been satisfied by this announcement and their new Linux website isn't yet exactly useful. We explore the VIA Linux situation in this article as well as sharing what two open-source developers have to say."

>> VIA's Open-Source Efforts A Bluff?

Ubuntu Geek takes a look at tools to access Linux Partitions from Windows

"If you dual boot with Windows and Linux, and have data spread across different partitions on Linux and Windows, you should be really in for some issues.

It happens sometimes you need to access your files on Linux partitions from Windows, and you realize it isn’t possible easily. Not really, with these tools in hand - it’s very easy for you to access files on your Linux partitions from Windows."

>> Tools to access Linux Partitions from Windows

I finally updated the CompatDB.org message forums. The following Linux support forums are available:

- Everything Linux
A forum for general Linux questions

- Linux Hardware
Need help getting a hardware working under Linux? This is the place to ask

- Linux Software
A forum for discussions of software related issues

- Linux Games
A forum for games under Linux

- Linux Networking
Networking under Linux

- Linux Customization & Tweaking
Tips and configuration tweaks for Linux

- Linux Security
Need help security your Linux system? Here you can post your questions and sharing tips and tricks

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Codeweavers has released CrossOver Games for both Linux and Mac OS

"Now gamers can play the games they want, on whatever platform they want! With CrossOver Games, you can run many popular Windows games on your Intel OS X Mac or Linux PC. Whatever your tastes — first-person shooters, fantasy, strategy, MMORPGs — CrossOver Games provides the capability to run many popular games titles. CrossOver comes with an easy to use, single click interface, which makes installing your games simple and fast. Once installed, your game integrates seamlessly into your Desktop. Just click and run! Best of all, you do it all easily and affordably, without needing a Microsoft operating system license.

CrossOver Games is built on the latest versions of Wine, based on contributions from both CodeWeavers and the open-source Wine community, and then lovingly hand-crafted by Stefan Dösinger, our very own Wine/Games connoisseur. Unlike other CrossOver products, which are aimed primarily at office productivity applications (and hence maximum stability), CrossOver Games aims to bring you the latest, greatest, bleeding edge improvements in Wine technology. This means that the newest games run faster and better under CrossOver than under other versions of CrossOver, or other version of free Wine, for that matter. You want to run your Mom's knitting software? Maybe you should look elsewhere. On the other hand, if you need better framerates on Linux or Mac so you can frag your buddies: check out CrossOver Games!"

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Wine Review posted an update on the Wine 1.0 Release Criteria

"On March 15th Dan Kegel sent a email to the wine-devel mailing list with a outline of the new release schedule for Wine 1.0 here is a quote of his original message.

I've updated http://wiki.winehq.org/WineReleaseCriteria
to be a bit more final.

I've also written a draft release plan; see
http://wiki.winehq.org/WineReleasePlan

Comments?

Alexandre Julliard replied with his thoughts on the first draft with some suggestions.

We need a code freeze and stabilization period before the release. My thinking is that we should have a 1.0rc1 release, probably sometime in May, and from that point on only accept small obvious fixes. Then we'd have rc2, rc3, etc. as needed until the bug list gets small enough. And by rc1 (or even earlier) any bug that requires more than a small simple patch would be deferred to 1.1.0."

>> Wine 1.0 Release Criteria updated

InfoWorld posted a news story that several open-source PHP (Hypertext Preprocessor) projects plan to stop supporting older versions of PHP in upcoming releases

"The Go PHP 5 campaign, sponsored by several PHP proponents, is intended to move the PHP developer community fully onto the PHP version 5 platform. Among the projects backing the effort are Symfony, Typo3, phpMyAdmin, Drupal, Propel, and Doctrine. These vendors are committing to use PHP 5.2 in releases developed after Tuesday."

>> PHP 5 deadline approaches

PC World posted a news story that Sun acquire MySQL for $1 Billion

"Sun Microsystems will pay US$1 billion for Swedish software company MySQL, whose open-source database is used for some of the most widely visited Web sites in the world.

Sun said the deal will augment its position in the enterprise IT market, including the $15 billion database market."

>> Sun to Acquire MySQL for $1 Billion

CNET News reports that SCO hopes that selling Unix will raise $36 million

"The SCO Group plans to sell its Unix assets--but not its big Linux lawsuits--to York Capital Management for up to $36 million."

>> SCO hopes selling Unix will raise $36 million

CNET News reports that the Eee PC, a long-awaited sub-$300 laptop-like device, was officially announced for the North American market.

"It's official: Asus has announced that the Eee PC (which we've been tracking since August) will be making its way to North America within the next few weeks. The 2-pound, 7-inch, Linux-based laptop will be available in three configurations priced from $299 to $399."

>> Asus officially announces Eee PC

InfoWorld reports that the SCO Group Inc. has filed for bankruptcy protection.

"The Lindon, Utah, company made the announcement in a news release, issued Friday afternoon. "The Board of Directors of The SCO Group unanimously determined that Chapter 11 reorganization is in the best long-term interest of SCO and its subsidiaries, as well as its customers, shareholders, and employees," the statement said."

>> SCO seeks bankruptcy protection

liquidat posted screenshots of VirtualBox’s seamless integration

"As already mentioned the new VirtualBox features seamless integration of Windows guest windows with Linux hosts. While I do not have a Windows copy at my hands at the moment a friend of mine made some screenshots and told me about his experiences."

>> VirtualBox’s seamless integration

Developerworks published a tutorial about analyzing issues with the Rational Performance Tester

"This tutorial highlights basic features of Rational Performance Tester. Practical, hands-on exercises teach you how to record automated performance tests, use data-driven techniques to ensure randomization, play-back tests, and evaluate real-time performance reports. "

>> Analyze issues using Rational Performance Tester
>> Download Rational Performance Tester

The Inquirer reports that Linus Torvalds is still unconvinced by GPLv3

"Torvalds said GPLv3 was not the 'great' licence that the GPLv2 was. He added that if there was no GPLv2, he would use GPLv3, however since he does not have to, he will not really bother."

>> Torvalds still unconvinced by GPLv3

Now that Novell has scored a major win for Linux in its legal battle with The SCO Group, it has no interest in becoming like the company it's just defeated and won't mount any copyright-infringement claims over Unix, a spokesman said Tuesday.

>> Novell doesn't want to be the next SCO

InfoWorld reports that Novell wins the right to Unix copyrights

"A judge in the U.S. District Court for the District of Utah Central District found that Novell is the owner of the Unix and UnixWare copyrights, dismissing SCO's charges of slander and breach of contract. The judge also ruled that SCO owes Novell for SCO's licensing revenue from Sun Microsystems Inc. and Microsoft Corp. SCO is obligated to pass through to Novell a portion of those licenses, the judge said."

>> Novell wins right to Unix copyrights

Linux.com reports that MySQL ends the distribution of MySQL Enterprise Server source tarballs

"MySQL quietly let slip that it would no longer be distributing the MySQL Enterprise Server source as a tarball, not quite a year after the company announced a split between its paid and free versions. While the Enterprise Server code is still under the GNU General Public License (GPL), MySQL is making it harder for non-customers to access the source code."

>> MySQL ends distribution of Enterprise source tarballs

The new GNU General Public License (GPL) version 3 is not a fit for Linux because switching would require permission from the kernel's thousands of de facto owners, a maintainer of the SCSI portion of the kernel said on Thursday. Also, Microsoft released a statement that the company has no GPLv3 obligations.

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