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Ideas in development Here are the implemented Ubuntu ideas for the Ubuntu 8.04 Hardy Heron release.

make Wine 1.0 available in Hardy (through hardy-updates)  
Written by ubuntu_demon the 30 Mar 08 at 12:02. Related project: Wine. Implemented
Make Wine 1.0 available in Hardy (through hardy-updates). This makes it easier for some companies who depend on XP software (which already works well in wine) to make the transition to Ubuntu.

IMHO it would be nice to release wine 1.0 through hardy-updates so everyone who hasn't disabled hardy-updates will get it. The wine 1.0 branch will probably continue to receive important updates making it easier for Ubuntu to maintain.

According to Eric S. Raymond's "World Domination 201" Wine is very important for Linux to become successful on the desktop.

Why wine is so important :
http://www.winehq.org/site/why
http://catb.org/~esr/writings/world-domination/world-domination-201.html

Wine 1.0 will release on june 6th. Hardy will release on june 5th. This makes it impossible to include wine 1.0 in Hardy except through hardy-backports or hardy-updates.

More information :
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/HardyReleaseSchedule
http://wiki.winehq.org/WineReleasePlan


Developer comments
Wine 1.0 is released for Gutsy and Hardy through backports.
It will be available via update too soon on Hardy.
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Selected solution (#1): Auto-generated solution of idea #6082
Written by ubuntu_demon the 30 Mar 08 at 12:02.
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Put OpenOffice.org 2.4 in the repositories  
Written by Eldmannen the 28 Mar 08 at 04:12. Global category: Office. Implemented
OpenOffice.org 2.4 got released March 27, 2008.

Good stuff.

Developer comments
OpenOffice.org 2.4 will be included in Hardy, the upload will happen in the next few days.
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Selected solution (#1): Auto-generated solution of idea #5894
Written by Eldmannen the 28 Mar 08 at 04:12.
Ubuntu Brainstorm was updated in January 2009. Since the idea #5894 was submitted before this update, its rationale and solution are not separated. Please vote accordingly, and if you have the necessary rights, please separate the rationale from the solution. Thanks!

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