According to http://wiki.winehq.org/winetricks the script is maintained and hosted by DanKegel at http://www.kegel.com/wine/winetricks. Right-click on that link and use ’save as’ to save a fresh copy. Or you can get it from the commandline with the command:

wget http://www.kegel.com/wine/winetricks

I’ve been using Winetricks and thought it would be worth sharing for anyone else who’s yearned for an easier way to manage the dependencies in wine.

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Alexander G. Chamandy, founder of Envescent said of the new division, “Open Support Source has over 25 years of collective experience with open source software.  Our skilled technicians enjoy working with open source as well as contributing to the open source community.  We believe this is a natural extension of our core expertise and a great opportunity to enhance our presence with small businesses that are considering or have already adopted open source solutions.”

Visit them on the web at www.opensupportsource.com or call 866-536-3001 for more information about their products and services.

Why move?

Yahoo’s corporate usage of FreeBSD has proudly represented the stability, power and security of the open source operating system.  Unfortunately all of the potential companies that are interested in Yahoo aren’t avid FreeBSD users.   The technology would be incompatible and the buyer’s implementation would likely be favored for all of Yahoo’s services.  It’s worth noting that there have also been murmurs of Yahoo moving away from FreeBSD in the past.

Who’s bidding?

Microsoft seems to be at the top of the list in a wave of seemingly manic gyrations between anticipatory buyout talks and slamming Yahoo’s valuation.

Google has been offering to “partner” with Yahoo.  Partnering really means Google would be handling the advertising and potentially search engine functionality for Yahoo.

AOL’s former executive and AOL-Time Warner have made noise about a potential merger or partnership.  This is probably the least feasible of the bids, but it is another example of a large corporate entity that would shift Yahoo’s determination away from FreeBSD.

What’s next?

Expect the deal to start taking shape soon.  If it is approved by the DoJ it will take place over the course of several years.  Massive layoffs at Yahoo would be forced and a lot of their technology would be moved over to whoever ends up owning Yahoo.   I for one hope this isn’t the case because diversity in searching and Internet information aggregation should be increased, not reduced.  Obviously there could be a detrimental impact on FreeBSD’s visibility as well.

The big picture

No matter what happens with Yahoo, FreeBSD’s future remains bright.  Just recently I have been successful in finding receptive clients through my consulting endeavors with Envescent.  They are willing and even excited to run FreeBSD for their back office operations.  We are seeing first hand that the private sector is growing more amenable to open source solutions and Microsoft’s dominance in small business IT is fading.

In this guide we will work with FreeBSD 7.0 and it is assumed that FreeBSD is already running on your machine.

First you need to login as root or run su in order to get the required permissions.

Then navigate to the ports folder for MySQL:

cd /usr/ports/databases/mysql50-server

Now run:

make install clean

in order to download and install MySQL.

Once the install is finished we install the databases by running:

mysql_install_db –user=mysql

Source: http://www.druidsys.com/?q=node/8

“The FreeBSD Release Engineering Team is pleased to announce the availability of FreeBSD 6.4-RELEASE. At this time 6.4-RELEASE is expected to be the last of the 6-STABLE releases. Some of the highlights:

• New and much-improved NFS Lock Manager (NLM) client
• Support for the Camellia cipher
• boot loader changes allow, among other things, booting from USB devices and booting from GPT-labeled devices with GPT-enabled BIOSes
• DVD install ISO images for amd64/i386
• KDE updated to 3.5.10, GNOME updated to 2.22.3
• Updates for BIND, sendmail, OpenPAM, and others

For a complete list of new features and known problems, please see the online release notes and errata list, available at:

• http://www.FreeBSD.org/releases/6.4R/relnotes.html
• http://www.FreeBSD.org/releases/6.4R/errata.html

For more information about FreeBSD release engineering activities, please see:

http://www.FreeBSD.org/releng/

The FreeBSD Security Team intends to support 6.4-RELEASE until November 30th, 2010.”

Source: http://www.freebsd.org/releases/6.4R/announce.html

Source: http://www.freebsd.org/news/newsflash.html

Web, database and e-mail servers can be migrated to FreeBSD by utilizing the Samba port for file sharing, Apache and PHP for web, MySQL for database as well as Sendmail and Dovecot for e-mail.

FreeBSD’s Samba port is an excellent way to leverage FreeBSD’s superior speed (vs Windows on nearly any hardware) to create a secure, stable and fast office file server.  Samba is compatible with Windows, Apple’s OS X and Linux clients so it should be universally acceptable to all users.

Apache and PHP make for the groundwork of a flexible and powerful web server with a minimal memory footprint when compared to many commercial alternatives.  Apache is the web server, providing the capability for clients to connect over HTTP to download and interact with web pages.  PHP is a scripting language that enables quick development and installation of web-based applications.

Database servers are essential for compiling, accessing and editing high volumes of information.  MySQL is the best database server and it’s easy to use.  It works well with Apache and PHP or as a standalone database.

Sendmail and Dovecot provide e-mail sending and receiving capabilities for the server and its clients. There are other configurations possible, but for the sake of simplicity and ease of use I recommend this one for most users.