FreeBSD and Windows software (Wine)

There’s some encouraging news about running Windows applications on WINE on FreeBSD 7. More and more native Windows application can now be run on FreeBSD without too much tweaking. Wine-Review has recently been testing, running and benchmarking the installation of native Windows applications through WINE:

• MS Office 2000
• MS Office 97
• Google SketchUp 6
• QuickTime 7.1.6
• Internet Explorer (5.5, 6.0, 6.5)

If you want to read up on some background info re WINE read this quick intro.