Has anyone managed to get "TaxCut" to work under wine? This would allow me to
get rid of my last windows partition.
Roly
On Tuesday 15 July 2003 06:28 pm, Paul Kaplan wrote:
> 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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