wine

Conflict over Wine..."A couple of kernel developers at Wine are upset about the current project leadership. Behind the dissatisfaction is so-called bug421 on the missing device-independent bitmap (DIB) engine..." [Read more at Linux Magazine]

Google's Chrome is gaining in popularity, but it would be nice to have a native Linux version... "CodeWeavers, best known for making its CrossOver programs that use WINE to run many popular Windows applications on Linux and Mac OS, has just released a proof-of-concept version of Chrome that runs on Linux and Mac systems. "The free CrossOver version of Chrome, CrossOver Chrome, is based on Google's open-source Chromium code. It's not, however, an actual port of Chrome to Linux or Mac OS... [more]