The Wine development release 1.1.1 is now available.

What's new in this release : Fixes for Photoshop CS3 and Office 2007 installers. More progress on gdiplus. Support for Unicode files in regedit. Improved video playback. Many Richedit fixes and improvements Various bug fixes

MIT just announced that it will offer a new class focused on building mobile applications for the Linux-based Google Android. The class is already full and is a small example of how students believe open source is making progress in the mobile industry.

The Wine development release 1.1.35 is now available.

What's new in this release:

* Support for OLE transacted storage.
* Better certificate checking on secure connections.
* More progress on the 16-bit separation.
* Left 4 Dead 2 DRM really supported now.
* MSI performance improvements.
* 64-bit fixes in debugger support.
* Various bug fixes.

The Bordeaux Technology Group released Bordeaux 2.0.4 for Mac today. Bordeaux 2.0.4 for Mac is a final build and is considered stable. With this final release we can only support Snow Leopard 10.6.x and higher systems.

The Wine development release 1.3.22 is now available. Whats new in this release. Support for Indic text shaping. Generation of stubless code in the IDL compiler. Support for X files in D3DX. 4 and 24 bit bitmap formats in the DIB engine. Listview performance improvements. Various bug fixes.

Heaps of news and observations regarding document formats

A while since last blog, so it seems nice to give some updates on the progress on the Plasma netbook shell, since in the past weeks i did some visual changes.

Novell CEO Ron Hovsepian and Chief Marketing Officer John Dragoon offered me a financial and partner progress report on March 22. Here’s a recap.

"The GCC team has released Version 4.3.0 of its GNU Compiler Collection. [...] The C++ standard library (libstdc++) has been given new classes for parallel data processing [...] The developers have also incorporated parts of the future ISO C++ standard..."