On Monday 10 February 2003 09:48 pm, Jack Coates wrote: > On Mon, 2003-02-10 at 20:41, Lorne wrote: > > On Monday 10 February 2003 03:19 pm, Mark Weaver wrote: > > > Anne Wilson wrote: > > > > On Monday 10 Feb 2003 9:08 pm, Mark Weaver wrote: > > > >>Anne Wilson wrote: > > > >>>On Saturday 08 Feb 2003 5:10 am, Mark Weaver wrote: > > > >>>>If I > > > >>>>wouldn'tn have to interact with the accounting system I wouldn't > > > >>>> have to boot back into windows at all. > > > >>> > > > >>>Have you considered win4lin for that need? Not everything works > > > >>> under it, but if your does the feeling of release is great. You > > > >>> run your windows app without having to re-boot. You get the > > > >>> windows functionality for that purpose, but with linux stability - > > > >>> and if it does go down, you can exit without bringing down your > > > >>> whole workstation. > > > >>> > > > >>>It's not free, but there's a money-back guarantee, I understand. > > > >>> > > > >>>Anne > > > >> > > > >>HI Anne, > > > >> > > > >>Actually I have tried that and one of those 'things' that didn't work > > > >>was networking, and the accounting system software, which is why I > > > >> was trying it in the first place. :( I "was" rather hoping it would > > > >> work because I hate having to stop what I'm doing cause Winders has > > > >> to crap. > > > > > > > > Sorry to hear that - it's so good when it does work. I haven't > > > > really looked at the network problem at all - our lan is pretty light > > > > use except for the internet access. I avoid using that under windows > > > > because of the reduced security, so I haven't much info on what I can > > > > get going and what I can't with regard to networking. > > > > > > > > Anne > > > > > > As I understand it VMWare will do what I needed Win4Lin to do but at > > > quite a bit more cost. > > > > There is another product that will run a bunch of windows apps. I can't > > recall the name of it for the life of me. It runs office, explorer, notes > > and some others beautifully. It is also commercial. > > > > AHHH... Crossover office by codeweavers. I've not checked out what > > they've done recently but a year ago when they released the first version > > it was pretty darned good! > > Used 1.2 when mdk9.0 came out and had to ask for my money back, sadly, > as it had great difficulty installing Office 97, wasn't stable, and > couldn't run Visio for beans (that was listed as bronze at the time, the > Codeweavers guys get nothing but kudos from me for even undertaking the > effort). > What a stinking shame uncle billy and his gang of thieves can get away with not being required to play fair. What a daunting task these guys have, having to reverse engineering everything. Incredible job and I hope they keep making ground. Sorry to hear they are still having problems. I'm sure they are still working hard on it.
> I tell you, iexplore.exe running in Linux is a jarring sight. And you > know something else, it was blazing fast; faster than any Win2K install > I've ever seen.
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