Hello Ville, That 'play_on_Linux' application looks perfect. Were you able to open/close your /home folder files easier?
I'm wondering if anyone has experience with it in an LTSP environment? Will it play nicely with multi-users? Thank you Joseph On Wed, Jun 12, 2013 at 2:44 PM, Ville Pöntinen <[email protected]> wrote: > Office 2010 installs and runs nicely if you use play_on_linux. > > On linux desktop anyway but thats what i would try on ltsp. > > 12.6.2013 21.04 "Frank Van Damme" <[email protected]> kirjoitti: >> >> 2013/6/11 Joseph Bishay <[email protected]>: >> > >> > I've been asked to figure out how to have staff access MS Word using >> > our network. OpenOffice / Libre Office apparently isn't good enough >> > (compatibility issues when moving files between one location that's >> > Word and one that's Libre Office). >> > >> > Is this possible? I know there's software like Wine and Crossover - >> > are those the recommended ways to do this? Or remote desktop to a >> > Windows server? If that is the case, will the staff still be able to >> > access their LTSP home files? >> > >> > I appreciate your feedback! >> >> No single answer is going to be the best to this question, but my >> advice would be: try Wine and test it. The "normal" wine versions are >> installable by ubuntu packages so that's practical; with some luck you >> may run the installer out of the box. Support is not perfect but it >> seems to work: >> http://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=application&iId=11 >> >> If you're going to try any proprietary derivative of Wine, Crossover >> or bordeaux are probably the best bet in your situation. >> http://wiki.winehq.org/ThirdPartyApplications >> >> I personally would only start looking at remote application solutions >> if none of the above suits your needs; for example a Citrix server to >> run just the Office applications, which will be a lot less practical >> to your end user because the integration with their desktop will be >> bad (things like drag and drop). >> >> -- >> Frank Van Damme >> "My new computer came with Windows 7. Windows 7 is much more user- >> friendly >> than Windows Vista. I don’t like that.” >> -- Sheldon Cooper, The Big Bang Theory >> >> -- >> edubuntu-users mailing list >> [email protected] >> Modify settings or unsubscribe at: >> https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/edubuntu-users > > > -- > edubuntu-users mailing list > [email protected] > Modify settings or unsubscribe at: > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/edubuntu-users > -- edubuntu-users mailing list [email protected] Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/edubuntu-users
