I really don’t know what else to say besides what the title says. Ubuntu repos have Firefox 3.0 and the Budgetdedicated repos (from winehq’s site) has Wine 1.0 for Hardy.
Sure, I’m not really a big fan of Firefox 3, but if you like it, grab it. I’ll continue to use SeaMonkey 2.0 alpha myself…
If you’ve ever kept a blog for a long period of time, you’ve probably gone back and re-read your old posts and were quite embarrassed by them. Many things you said you no longer believe, or have changed your mind on, or something. You rant about things that really didn’t matter in the long run, and you generally wonder what state of mind you had to be in to write that.
Well, I have gone back and re-read all my posts, but I’m not going to change or remove any of the core things I said, even though I now disagree with a few of them (Amarok, I’m very sorry I was so harsh to you!). However, I was distressed by my use of harsh language in many posts, and decided to edit a few of my posts to remove the harsh and vulgar language. The tone of the edited posts was not changed at all, just my choice of words to express my feelings. Getting mad at something does not mean one has to drop F-bombs, you know.
So I feel better by having a generally cleaner blog now, and hopefully it will not scare people off as it did before with its occasionally scary language. I apologize for using such language on this blog, and I will not use any more scary language here in the future.
In case you have missed it, the Wine project (an effort to implement a Windows-compatible application layer under other operating systems) has been marching toward a 1.0 release lately, currently (as of this writing) at 1.0 Release Candidate 4 (1.0-rc4). They have been working on fixing most of the major bugs in many applications so that Linux (and other open OSes such as *BSD) can run Windows programs on their desktops without having to deal with emulation/virtual machine-type software that would slow execution down significantly. Wine even runs many major Windows games such as Steam engine games (Half-Life 2, Portal, Counter-Strike Source), World of Warcraft, the Grand Theft Auto series of games, and many others with minimal or no extra tweaking, as well as programs like Photoshop, the Microsoft Office suite, and many others. (Compatibility reports can be found on their AppDB page.)
Even though I would like for developers to port these applications to Linux so that we may run them natively instead of using a program that, admittedly, will never gain 100% compatibility with Windows due to Microsoft’s desire to keep the internals of their OS closed off and therefore unable to completely duplicate successfully, the tireless work of the Wine developers have made it possible to have the next best thing, and I thank them for their efforts.
