Website of the Month
The aim of this section is to find decent and relatively unknown websites that will help you with your daily Ubuntu needs (and general curiosity). I will sum up the good and the bad points of the website, and -- with any luck -- the website owner will read the article and then rectify any problems mentioned!
Written by Daniel Cohen
Frank's corner http://frankscorner.org
Following up on last week's WINEDB, I have a quaint little website called Frank's Corner. I apologise in advance for any readers who are not interested in any WINE related issues, but this website is, in my opinion, a real gem. Looking down the side, it is divided up into applications and games, of which they then have sub-categories which lets you find what you want really quickly.
Now the big advantage of this site is that everything on this website is tried and tested lots, and as a result, basically, if it's on there it will run. Most of them are very straight forward, involving simply running a .exe file. However, others that require more it gives explicit instructions to get it working. Some of the howto are hosted on other websites, for instance the Half-Life 2 guide. All of the links that I checked do work, which shows that he must keep the website up to date. He even includes a screenshot of the program/game actually running.
The website is ultra minimalistic, in that it's basically all text with a logo at the top. I've never seen the website down, and all the links throughout it work (that I tested).
The only criticism I could make is the lack of a search feature, however this isn't an issue because of his sensible categories. This is about as complete as a website gets – it has everything it needs. No more, no less, and it has enough content to stand up on it's own.
So the bottom line is, if you want to know how to install a game of piece of software on wine, then get over to Frank's Corner!
