Hey gang,
This is obviously more a reflection of the intense interest in running Windows applications on Mac OS X than a testament to my powers as project admin, but exciting news nonetheless. And although it occurred two months ago (I just noticed it this morning), I figured I should get the word out belatedly rather than not at all...
Anyhow, the news is that Darwine got voted First Place in the Desktop Environment category of the 2006 SourceForge.net Community Choice Awards. The awards were presented at the Slashdot Lounge at LinuxWorld Expo, Boston, April 5.
http://sourceforge.net/awards/cca/
Other amazing-but-true facts are Darwine's high SF stats:
Rank Activity Downloads 381 99.76% 172,941
The activity ranking is out of over 120,000 projects on SF.net.
What makes that even more surprising is the Darwine SF project page isn't even linked from the Darwine web site (notice the nice banner!):
http://sourceforge.net/projects/darwine/
Of course this *is* a testament to the hard work put in by a few developers, most especially (in alphabetical order):
Emmanuel Maillard, Pierre d'Herbemont, and Sanjay Connare.
This morning we just received a big CoreAudio patch from Ken Thomases of CodeWeavers, so things are certainly getting interesting!
So here's big *Thank You!* to the Darwine developers and to the many other Wine developers who are making the vision of software freedom a reality.
Jim (not related to Jeremy) White Founder and Project Administrator http://darwine.opendarwin.org/