LiberKey applications work on Debian through Wine

Posted on 05. Oct, 2009 by in Computers, Debian, Windows

There is this beautiful portable suite called LiberKey which is really a collection of hundreds of open source applications for Windows.

For months, I have searched and tried out several portable applications for Windows. None of them even came close to LiberKey in terms of the range, stability and upgrades.

I’ve used LiberKey from the same USB device on both XP and Vista machines with equal ease. You can update LiberKey on XP machine and run it on Vista and viceversa. In fact, I’ve copied LiberKey onto my “C:\Program Files” on Windows drives and I enjoy free updates of all my open source applications.

What was a good Windows solution, has now proven to be a good Linux solution too.

Today, I tried out several LiberKey applications on Debian through the Wine interface and most of them seemed to be working well. The only fall back is that these applications dont work through the Liberkey interface. But rather each application needs to be run from its folder manually. This is not a set back  as all it takes is a link to a application to open it.

Debian users sure wont have to miss their little windows programs on GNOME or KDE.

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5 Responses to “LiberKey applications work on Debian through Wine”

  1. Roy Schestowitz (schestowitz) 's status on Monday, 05-Oct-09 15:56:17 UTC - Identi.ca

    05. Oct, 2009

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  3. TLSam

    09. Oct, 2009

    LiberKey is a known GPL violator and trademark infringer. They’ve stolen code from PortableApps.com and lied about it when caught. They also repackage and modify things like Firefox without permission.

    You’re better off using PortableApps.com. They support open source software and do things legally. They also work with the Wine folks. Their menu works under Wine.

  4. meh

    28. Dec, 2009

    TLSam, accusing without proof is very serious. I’m not connected to Liberkey in any way, but it sickens me to see that Portable Apps users/developers are so keen to attack Liberkey, which is indeed a fine suite.

  5. twitch

    16. Mar, 2010

    I use Liberkey, it’s brilliant. I’ve been thinking about moving to PortableApps.

    If you can provide some proof please, TLSam

    -twitch

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