joe wrote:
> primm wrote:
>
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>> It's just that the other girls don't like the
>> look of openoffice. So I have to keep that machine for the time being.
>>
>
>
> Ah, too bad. Have they seen oOo 2.3? In any case, I would think that the cost
> savings and virus resistance would justify oOo.
>
>
> Another option is that they could run ms office in linux, under codeweavers
> wine or win4lin or similar.
>
> Joe
>
It is likely that they are using only Word and Excel? I believe both
of those work well under Codeweavers emulators. In which case your
other associates would actually run Linux except when editing a *.doc or
*.xls file in which case a native copy of Word or Excel would kick in
and seamlessly allow them to use that program while you and the others
use Open Office which is compatable with the documents they produce.
Now, if you have some reason to *need* an XP machine (which is really a
single user machine with multiple accounts on it, meaning multiple
users, one at a time) a great solution is VMWare, which is a machine
emulator that runs under Linux that pretends to be a computer that can
run almost any guest OS, including XP...PERFECTLY. VMWare will run XP,
2000, Vista, other versions of Linux or even DOS ... all at the same
time and on the same machine, provided of course you have enough memory
and horsepower available, but I routinely run 10.2 SuSE and load up XP
for those very few occasions where there is not yet an available
substitute written to run under Linux. In that case, and without
rebooting, I just launch VMWare which gives me a virtual machine running
real XP which then can run whatever XP would normally run...including
all of XP's viruses :) (of course, Linux keeps them contained inside of
the virtual machine and won't let them contaminate the rest of the
environment). The virtual machine can communicate with the external
Linux network with Samba, FTP, or SSH if you wish. The virtual machine
is available to any of your other office mates from their machines
without having to get up and go over to the XP machine to use it.
There is a free version available that allows one user at a time to
access the virtual machine (just like a real hardware machine), but for
a nominal charge, you can have multiple users all accessing the virtual
machine simultaneously which is unlike the real XP which costs big bucks
for such a license. So, Lynn, you have a lot of options and Linux
forms the basis even if for some jobs you still need or want XP.
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