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Copying what was said in the dev mailing list of Winehq :

The 1.0 release of Wine is tenatively scheduled for he 15th anniversary of the project (roughly 1 June 2008, if you take Dan Dulitz’ message as the start of the project,
http://groups.google.com/group/comp.os.linux/msg/7f92abdf494ab8b3 )

Over the last six or so months, the wine developers have identified 180 or so bugs as possibly being worth fixing
before the 1.0 release.

63 of the Wine 1.0 bugs have already been fixed:
http://bugs.winehq.org/buglist.cgi?target_milestone=1.0.0&resolution=FIXED

101 are left to fix:
http://bugs.winehq.org/buglist.cgi?target_milestone=1.0.0&resolution=—

We can’t fix all of these before the 1.0 release; we’ll have to leave some for later. If you want a say in which of these bugs get fixed sooner, please vote for your favorite bugs. To do this:

- sign into Bugzilla (you need to register, but that’s easy)
- pull up your favorite bug from the above list,
- click on the ‘Vote for this bug’ link on the bug.

Dan’s Mail

So, what about participatig in the wine project?

I just saw at Photonix, finally AMD released the new Drivers for ATI card for Linux. They are getting in the right track and recognizing linux

What can we say… “Aiglx support, X.Org server 1.4 support, video playback improvements, more performance improvements, Rialto AGP fixe and better support for the HD family”

• Download Installer
• See the Release notes (not up yet, or new URL)
• Phoronix: AMD 8.42 Driver Brings Fixes, AIGLX!

Info on installing it in Ubuntu Gutsy/Feisty should be out soon for those that want it

I don’t need it, I use the OpenSource ‘Radeon’ Drivers - Ati 9200 Mobility

*UPDATE - Installing in Ubuntu*

• EN : http://forlong.blogage.de/article/2007/10/23/fglrx-8423—finally-with-AIGLX-support
• PT : http://www.guiaubuntupt.org/wiki/index.php?title=ATI_fglrx_8.42.3

*Update 2 - For Compiz*

For compiz to work do the following:

sudo gedit /etc/xdg/compiz/compiz-manager

and add the line

WHITELIST=”nvidia intel ati radeon i810 fglrx”

or

echo SKIP_CHECKS=yes > .config/compiz/compiz-manager

Está disponível o novo site do projecto OpenOffice.org da Comunidade Portuguesa. Ainda não está completo, mas deverá estar brevemente.

• http://pt.openoffice.org/

Agora com nova liderança, o projecto está a alterar a sua apresentação a comunidade e pretende disponibilizar mais rápidamente a localização do OpenOffice.org para Português.

Poderam encontrar no novo site várias informações sobre o OpenOffice.org, a comunidade e obter a última versão em PT.

Outro site nacional sobre o OOo é o http://www.look2oo.org/

Os meus parabens a nova equipa do OOo PT e boa sorte

Para re-lembrar, existe uma extensão de pesquisa para o Firefox do Guia Ubuntu PT, para facilitar a pesquisa de conteúdos no Wiki

Para instalar basta aceder ao seguinte link e carregar numa das imagens:

• http://www.guiaubuntupt.org/?q=node/1

Nota 2 : Quem tiver guias para partilhar no Wiki do Guia Ubuntu é bem-vindo a participar no projecto

*Update*

OpenOffice 2.3 already can open .docx files, just right-click and select to Open With OpenOffice.

*****

I’m starting to get .docx in my mail lately ( against my will…) and not using Microsoft Office and not beeing able to ask people to send at least .doc, I had to do some search to give some support do OpenOffice to this “format”.

Novell has created an OpenXML Translator for OpenOffice, and I found this guide at sigmundvoid. (I’ve just made some small changes)

This was tested in Ubuntu 7.04 “Feisty Fawn”

1- First you need to have ‘alien’ installed, an rpm to deb converter.

$ sudo apt-get install alien

2 - Grab yourself the Odf converter RPM, from here.

3 - Now lets convert it like this:

$ alien -ct odf-converter-1.0.0-5.i586.rpm

You will end up with a .tgz file.

Extract it to a directory:

$ tar -zxvf odf-converter-1.0.0.tgz

Now its time to copy a few files to allow us to open up our .docx file.

sudo cp usr/lib/ooo-2.0/program/OdfConverter /usr/lib/openoffice/program/

sudo cp usr/lib/ooo-2.0/share/registry/modules/org/openoffice/TypeDetection/Filter/MOOXFilter_cpp.xcu /usr/lib/openoffice/share/registry/modules/org/openoffice/TypeDetection/Filter/

sudo cp usr/lib/ooo-2.0/share/registry/modules/org/openoffice/TypeDetection/Types/MOOXTypeDetection.xcu /usr/lib/openoffice/share/registry/modules/org/openoffice/TypeDetection/Types/

OpenOffice is now compatible with the docx “format”.

In notice : PLEASE don’t send docx, at least .doc if you dont like standards…

Saw at Hugo Silva

Eu falei a uns tempos do Vodafone Connect card, uma aplicação para linux, escrita em Python e GTK.

Recentemente arranjei um Kanguru, placa HUAWEI E600 PCMCIA, e depois de tentar manualmente umas tantas vezes sem sucesso, decidi tentar a minha sorte com está aplicação, e não é que funcionou

Tive de fazer umas alterações nas preferências como é óbvio, e meti os DNS do OpenDNS que funcionam melhor.

Pronto é so ir ao site da aplicação e fazer download para a tua Distribuição

In May, when I first talked about this project, the project was in its beginning, now its First Stable release is out!

It was announced on the 5th of July, and you can download the Tarball or Debian file:

Current Release: Wine-Doors 0.1 (Vinegar Finger)
Tarball
Debian/Ubuntu

I still think its a great ideia, creating simple interface to install software with wine in a automated way.

Try it out.

Today I’ve discoverd the Google Linux Software Repositories, available for:

• Apt Based distros : Ubuntu 7.04 & Debian 4.0
• Rpm Based Distros : OpenSuse, Fedora, Mandriva

Easy way to install google software on Linux and to keep it up-to-date.

Nice play by Google in my opinion.

Page : http://www.google.com/linuxrepositories/index.html

Sunbird 0.5 RC3 has been released

Changes ( from the projects Weblog )

• Much more polished user interface in the calendar views
• Working hours are back
• Automatic migration of data in Sunbird 0.2, iCal.app, and Evolution
• Much improved printing functionality
• Support for Google Calendar (via the Google Calendar Provider extension)
• Vastly improved reliability
• Many performance improvements
• Many usability improvements
• A full list of changes that have gone into this release can be found on The Rumbling Edge weblog.

Has you can see in the “Rumbling Edge” the list of changes is a bit long.

This is one of those software’s I use daily has you can imagine, and I Recommend it !

Download @ http://releases.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/calendar/sunbird/releases/

PS: if you have a google calendar, remember to use the Google Provider Extension

Install it in Ubuntu @ GuiaUbuntuPT.org