The Wine team is proud to announce that Wine 1.0 is now available. This is the first stable release of Wine after 15 years of development and beta testing. Many thanks to everybody who helped us along  that long road!

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Wow! After so many years, finally Wine is now stable. I’ve been using it for years and during the beta days Wine is performing well.

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Ever wondered what are the Open Source alternative to Proprietary Programs that we commonly used? Here’s a summary of the list that was originally posted at WHDb.

Basics
1) Windows Vista OS –> Ubuntu OS
2) Internet Explorer Browser –> Mozilla Firefox Browser

Office Suites
3) Microsoft Office –> OpenOffice
4) Mactopia –> NeoOffice

Office Tools
5) MathWorks MATLAB –> Scilab
6) Microsoft Access –> Kexi
7) Microsoft Word –> OpenOffice Writer
Microsoft Excel –> OpenOffice Calc
9) Micorosoft Visio –> Dia

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MANILA, Philippines — A three-year-old training program developed in the Philippines by Sun Microsystems in tandem with local academicians has attracted about 12 percent of the local universities and tertiary schools in the country, executives said.

About 273 schools out of 1,600 universities and tertiary schools are now members of the Java Education and Development Initiative (JEDI) of Sun Microsystems, said Matt Thompson, director of Sun Developer Network and Open Source Programs Office of Sun Microsystems.

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BOSTON (Reuters)—Red Hat’s new chief executive said on Friday that the company will continue to pursue a business model under which it makes its software available at no cost and makes money selling services to businesses.

“We are a mission-based company. Democratizing information is a social good,” Chief Executive James Whitehurst said in an interview with Reuters. “We will be open source. We will be the leader in open source.”

Last month he was named CEO of Red Hat, the world’s largest publicly held developer of open source software.

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This is good news to the Linux community.

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MANILA, Philippines–Microsoft Philippines is set to open a “satellite” open source network lab in the country soon, local executives said in a briefing.

Although declining to give details, the local executives said the Microsoft open source network lab will test the interoperability of the company’s products, including the new operating system Vista, with other environments

More details will be revealed in the next two to three months, Albert Dela Cruz, platform strategy manager of Microsoft Philippines, said in a briefing.

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