> from all that I am reading, it sounds like XOO does nothing special > to wine itself, only eases the installation. I'm not a unix newbie > so I thought I could get office to run on the daily WINE I get on > debian, but I can't find a USEFULL howto that actually makes sense > or looks like it's ben tested, any pointers anyone? or is it really > not worth fighting for? $40 for a bunch of scripts I can do myself > sounds a bit steep.
Hardly... CrossOver is much more then some wine-on-steroids. It's a version of wine with some unreleased patches (will be released a bit later), and it got some mechanism that is not available in the standard wine. Just an example: If you want to install MS Office, then in the end you'll need to: 1. do a simulate "reboot" of wine. 2. Register quite a few DLL's. 3. Do association of file extension to various Linux applications (example - doc, .xls to your Netscape/Mozilla/Kmail) 4. Collect icons from various programs and convert them to XPM format etc... Current free wine cannot do any of the above by itself. You can look at the mailing list of the wine-devel to see that the "reboot" process it starting to be written by Schachar... The latest version of CrossOver office is also running MS Access 97,2000 and Office XP. None of those programs runnning well with the free wine (unless you want to start copying DLL's from Windows and over-come the "reboot" problems. Thanks, Hetz ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
