John, I'm not sure exactly what you mean by VMBOX. As I see it, you have two (and a half ;) ) options for handling your needs:
1. VMWare (player for free, workstation for $$) can run Windows VM's very nicely - I (and quite a few others on this list) have been doing that for years. QEMU is free, and also works, but is slower. 2. Wine will run MSOffice on Linux pretty well, and while I don't remember the version, when I tried Minitab at school last year, it ran OK on Wine also. 2.5. You can handle almost all of MSOffice's files with OpenOffice - just today, I used OO to open a powerpoint file that was making PowerPoint itself crash. Word files with form fields are messy, and the spreadsheet graphing isn't as good, but everything else is pretty good. Then you would just need to use Wine or VMWare for things like Minitab... FWIW, Vern John McKelvey wrote: > Any opinions on this for running Windoz apps under linux? Other > suggestions for this? Am about to give up and use Linux on my laptop, > but need to be able to edit edit/create Powerpoint slides, and some > other MSOffice pgms, as well as Minitab V15. > > Thanks! > > John McKelvey > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > Fwlug mailing list > [email protected] > http://fortwaynelug.org/mailman/listinfo/fwlug_fortwaynelug.org -- This time for sure! -Bullwinkle J. Moose ----------------------------- Vern Ceder, Director of Technology Canterbury School, 3210 Smith Road, Ft Wayne, IN 46804 [EMAIL PROTECTED]; 260-436-0746; FAX: 260-436-5137 _______________________________________________ Fwlug mailing list [email protected] http://fortwaynelug.org/mailman/listinfo/fwlug_fortwaynelug.org
