Practical Technology

No, I’m not talking about the iPhone. My problem was when my wife and I decided it was time to retire her slowly dying IBM ThinkPad X40 and bring in a fresh new MacBook Pro in its place. Well, that was the plan anyway. More >

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Fifteen years in the making, everyone’s favorite software to run Windows programs on Linux and Unix, Wine, is almost ready for its 1.0 release. If all goes well, Alexandre Julliard, Wine’s lead developer, says that Wine 1.0 should appear on June 20, two weeks after the program’s fifteenth birthday. While at this point there are [...]

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Who says you have to give up all your Windows programs to use Linux? Not CodeWeavers, with its latest version of CrossOver Linux 6.2. With this new version of CrossOver Linux, you can run more Windows programs on Linux than ever and such Windows mainstays as Microsoft Office–from 97 to 2003–Internet Explorer 6, and Quicken [...]

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Google and CodeWeavers Inc. are working together to bring Google’s popular Windows Picasa photo editing and sharing program to Linux. The program is now in a limited beta test. If this program is successful, other Google applications will be following it to the Linux desktop, sources say. The Linux Picasa implementation includes the full feature [...]

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Photoshop? The application most people want, at this date, to be ported to Linux from Windows is Photoshop? Color me surprised! When Novell Inc. started its survey of what applications people wanted ported to Linux, both Novell CoolSolutions site editor Scott Morris and I were both surprised to find Adobe Photoshop anywhere near the top [...]

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