Spill the Wine, install IrfanView in Debian

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Feb 16, 2010

[ Thanks to Tom
Wickline
for this link. ]

“Sure I’ve tried Wine before. But never successfully.

“I took the plunge recently, forking over $20 for the Bordeaux
GUI front-end for Wine, the non-emulator that allows users of Linux
(and Solaris and FreeBSD) to run Windows applications on their
Unix-like computers.

“I decided to use Bordeaux because its developers (or developer
singular … I’m not sure) promised that IrfanView 4.25 would run
with it.

“And I saw plenty of Wine users have trouble with Irfanview.
Codeweavers, who I’d rather deal with than Bordeaux, doesn’t make
any promises in regard to Irfanview. Bordeaux does.

“Why Irfanview? It’s the best photo editor on any platform for
my particular workflow at the L.A. Daily News.”


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Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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