I got wine to run Excel 97 & Word 97 (at least for what I was doing using the RPMs that came with Mandrake 9.0, but something got broken in LM9.1 I do use Crossover Office for several windows apps at work and it does an impressive job under 9.1. Office XP apps are at least as fast as under W2K, and most features work. AFAIK CX is basically an installer program under wine for windows apps that sets up a fakewindows (win98) directory to do so. There are some gaps once you get away from the programs reported to work...Outlook XP is really buggy...Outlook 2K is workable as an e-mail client, but there's problems using some of the advanced features of MS Exchange...upgrading internet exploder 5.0 to 128 key encryption has been a no go...forget ms project or any other project management package.
What are your requirements? Paul On Tuesday 15 July 2003 20:37, John Drouhard wrote: > On Tue, 15 Jul 2003 18:51:46 -0500 > > Harv Nelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I'm one step closer to dumping the Windows box altogether. > > > > Is there any advantage to "Win4Lin" over "WINE"? Are they pretty much > > the same thing? > > > > Is there any advantage to using one over the other ... or both? > > > > Any other cautions, caveats, evaluations, comments you'd care to give > > are much appreciated. > > > > Thanks > > > > Harv/AI9NL > > What exactly do you plan to be doing with windows programs? Games? > Office applications? With Win4Lin, you need a windows os cd, because you > actually install a windows system to your linux partition. You then run > "Windows" like a linux application, and the desktop, start menu, and > taskbar appears at the bottom. It does a nice job doing office > applications, but may be a little more than what you need. > > With Wine, you can run office apps from an existing windows partition, > or if that isn't there, you can just install the office app by issuing > the "wine" command. There is no installation of windows necessary. > Codeweavers has a product called Crossover Office that can run Adobe > Photoshop, MIcrosoft Office XP, Office 2000, and Office 97, Lotus Notes, > and some others. It's not quite as expensive as Win4Lin, and does its > job well. The best part is that it has a nice, easy to understand GUI to > install programs. > > > The free version of wine may have support for Microsoft > Office, but I'm not completely sure. > > HTH, > John Drouhard
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