Coming back from a day’s break, we present another unique and nice software as part of our Christmas Giveaway. If you remember, in our announcement post, we had promised freebies for our readers with Mac and Linux as well. Of-course majority of the giveaways were Windows based (considering our reader base using Windows), but we have a split introduction and promotion of CodeWeavers Crossover Mac and Crossover Linux.
Whether you’re running a Linux or Mac OS X machine, chances are you need a way to run at least some Windows applications or games that aren’t available on your platform of choice. CodeWeavers Crossover for Mac and Linux allow Windows apps on your Mac and Linux without Windows respectively. This is supposedly better and faster than having a dual boot or using VMWare and other Virtual machine solutions.
CodeWeavers Crossover for Mac
CrossOver Mac allows you to install many popular Windows applications and games on your Intel Mac. CrossOver includes an easy to use, single click interface, which makes installing Windows software simple and fast. Once installed, your application integrates seamlessly in OS X. Just click and run your application directly from the OS X Finder. Clicking a Windows file or document, including email attachments will launch the appropriate Windows program, allowing you to work on the files. Best of all, you do it all easily and affordably, without needing a Microsoft operating system license.
Because it doesn’t use Windows and no Windows license is required, the total cost of using CrossOver is much less than virtual machine products such as Parallels Desktop and VMware Fusion. CrossOver also doesn’t use the CPU bandwidth and doesn’t require the large amount of RAM that virtual machine software such Parallels or VMware require. The drawback is that CrossOver only supports a selected Windows applications, including Outlook. The company said that it would be adding support for more applications as time goes on. Click here to see the supported applications list.
CrossOver Mac Pro 8 is a smart application; it relies on the open-source Wine application for running Windows apps and streamlines the install process. Adding new Windows software is easy. Just place your install CD in your Intel Mac, and CrossOver will recognize it and offer to begin the installation process. CrossOver then completes the installation and configures your application to run on your Mac. That’s all there is to it.
CodeWeavers Crossover for Linux
Crossover for Linux is very similar to Crossover for Mac. It has support for several applications, including Quicken 2009, Internet Explorer 7, and Adobe Photoshop CS2. According to Codeweavers, it also offers improved support for Microsoft Office 2003/2007, Outlook 2000, and Adobe FrameMaker, among others titles. The CrossOver Standard and Pro versions (which sell for $39.95 and $69.95) include six and 12 months of paid support, respectively. The Pro version offers some other benefits, including multi-seat deployment tools and physical software media.
The company limits its formal technical support, however, to a shorter list of about 130 Windows apps, including business productivity tools, graphics software, Web design and development apps, and even Windows system software such as DirectX.
Personally, I feel there is a lot of scope to improve on the current software and with Crossover 9 being in roadmap, I am sure the company will iron out the existing bugs and adds support for more and more Windows applications.
Crossover for Mac and Linux – Free Licenses giveaway
We have 25 free licenses of Codeweavers’ Crossover 8.0 for Mac/Linux Pro version to be given away. The best part is, once you get the license, you can choose to register them as you prefer! As usual, leave a comment on why you like to win a license and you are in for the giveaway! If you promote this on Mac/Linux Tech forums you will have a better chance to win the license.
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Winners: slamp, Aaron Turrall, Paul, hideipuser, Saurabh, Stephane ROBERT, jyothiprasadb, Steph, Gianluca, James Cain, Murugesan, Nicolai S, Albert H, Abhishek, Ubiq, Venkat, peter, Brigitte, Devon, juju, k19s, bill ehm, Sean, Kristian Matthews, Slipdisc, Matias S. Aquino, jose
Recently I crossed over to Mac but as most Win users know there is a far greater propensity to develop apps for Win OS. That being the case I am using trials of VMWare and Parallels to run certain Win progs right now. I only have a few trial days left so being “gifted” with this program would be a blast. Count me in please.
Somehow I couldn’t get WINE working. I want to try luck with this. To increase my chance of winning this giveaway, I’ve also posted in linuxforums.org; here is the link for forum post…
http://www.linuxforums.org/forum/misc/156999-alternatives-wine.html#post746684
I’m also having this page link in my gtalk status and I’m also going to tweet about it.
Im currently using Wine, but not all programs work very well under wine, so it would be great if I could win this giveaway.
(If I win, then give me the Linux license)
I am using Linux Mint. I have to use some of the windows apps in Mint for the development purpose. This would be a great addition to my Mint box.
Thanks for offering this.
Hey I have a macbook and would like to win one license…
Thanks you
This will be really useful for me because I have both Mac and PC. Accessing files between the two will make my life easier because I dont have to worry where to save them. Thanks for offering this.
I really need this, and hope I will win it.
Thank you very much of the offer
could i have a one i u dont mind plz
I have no idea how this program will work out in practice, but the description is certainly promising.
Please consider me for the Mac Crossover deal
This would make my mac have a much better feel.
Winning this would make my Christmas for me
And I would give many thanks for this to TechPP
I’ve just installed Ubuntu for trying out and this software could really make the change much easier.
I could really use this, I am currently dual-booting with vista/kubuntu linux. I would much prefer to switch completely to Linux, rather than have to reboot everytime I need to use a Windows only app. The interruption in workflow really, really adds up.
I’m starting to learn how to use kUbuntu and would be interested in the Linux version as well.
I have a mac. but no windows
I always run into problems when I try to install a program that they only make in .exe!!!
This is a great software that I would like to have.
I use Ubuntu all the time, and I sometimes want to use some
Windows software, but don’t want to lose Ubuntu. I use WINE,
but WINE isn’t the best yet.
Crossover let’s me use Photoshop, etc. in Linux.
Sounds interesting. And considering I have both a Mac Mini & Ubuntu box running worth a try.
A must have program if one is running either Linux or Mac.
Please Please I want this. To be able to use both Linux and windows apps together I’ve tried both wine on linux and andlinux on windows. I’d kill for this. Okay not literally..
i bougt my mac last week and i realy need it
thank you
This is a great peice of software, now I hope to move from windows forever
Thanks, I’d like to enter for an alternative to Wine on Linux.
I switched to linux few years ago. You cannot ignore the plenity of features at desktop level, the satisfaction when you’re involved in the community’s projects and the feeling of freedom from this world. But, unfortunately, I’m still stuck in a “dual-boot life” because of few apps glued in the Windows world. Crossover could be a chance to clean up the boot menu keeping a single entry: linux.
I am linux user, i hope win this contest..
Sweet! I could use this to run older software without having to mess with another OS install.
Hi there.
I would love to have a license for Linux. I would gladly promote both your site and Crossover’s via an in-depth review within 30 days of winning / being granted a license.
Though there is no particular Windows app I feel the need to run on Linux, I do have valid MS Office, Photoshop, and Quicken applications that I would install and try out.
It is very important that people know about this option for them. The more, the better – and anything I can do to help, I will.
I have always wanted to try linux but was put off because I thought I would not be able to use all my favourite apps that work on windows. Now crossover may just give me the chance to do that? Hence I would really like a pro license… The website states codeweaver for windows does the following:
Allows you to run many popular office productivity software applications on Linux, such as Microsoft Office, Lotus Notes, Microsoft Project and Visio, graphics applications like Macromedia Dreamweaver MX, Flash MX, and Adobe Photoshop, and many more. Not only that, but CrossOver Linux also allows you to use many Windows Web browser plugins, such as QuickTime and Shockwave, directly on your Linux browser. Runs on many popular Linux distributions, such as Ubuntu, Red Hat, Novell, SUSE, Xandros, Mandriva and others. No Windows Operating System license required; CrossOver is a complete replacement for your Windows OS as far as your applications are concerned. Your Windows Linux compatibility solution!
In summation a license would rock – I will post this post in the donationcoder.com forum (if possible)! Keep up the good work raju and others…
I had tried to install some windows apps on a linux machine sometime back and it failed miserably. This would be perfect for me. Thanks for this giveaway.
Hello.
Very useful to run windows applications under linux.
I use Mandriva & Ubuntu [Linux]
I don’t know the name of this software but “Cross Over” is a good choice !
It’s a great opportunity
Thank you,
Steph.
Hi i would like to see if i can win a license for linux, I have been wanting to switch to linux but most of the work i do i use ms office so this will help me to switch over
thank you
Thanks for this offer
Regards,
Yaser