On Mon, 21 May 2001, Ric Tibbetts wrote:
> The few instances where I've seen Office run at all on Linux under wine were:
>
> Dual boot machine (Win98/Linux).
> Office was installed on Win98.
> Machine was booted in Linux, with the Win98 partition mounted.
> Wine was running Office from the Win98 partition.
>
> I've seen this work, and I've had it working. But I'd not consider it nearly
> stable, nor complete enough to be "production useable".
>
> If you really want to run Office from Linux, look into VMware. While not "free",
> it's a far better alternative.
better yet, use win4lin. doesn't do all the multimedia stuff quite
right yet, but i routinely use it for quicken 2000, office suite,
eudora, gravity news, etc... speed is as good as native windows 98...
