Re: wine (Was: Re: [SLUG] Opinions, please.)

2002-04-12 Thread Simon Wong
On Fri, 2002-04-12 at 14:22, Andre Pang wrote: heard of Win4Lin. It runs Windows 9x (95/98/ME) very well, and there are extremely few hiccups with it. Compatibility is extremely high since you're running Windows inside a virtual machine -- but the VM is _much_ faster than VMware. What apps

Re: wine (Was: Re: [SLUG] Opinions, please.)

2002-04-11 Thread Simon Wong
On Fri, 2002-03-22 at 10:10, Peter Hardy wrote: http://crossover.codeweavers.com It's wine, with funky extensions. It was written to let you use win32 plugins in linux-based browsers, but also lets you run the installed programs from the commandline. The newest version, in addition to

Re: wine (Was: Re: [SLUG] Opinions, please.)

2002-04-11 Thread David Kempe
P.S. I was impressed that Codeweavers WINE ran Quickbooks error free first time. Other WINE's have had trouble with Quickbooks and MYOB. No more Windows! Yeah! This is good news. Thanks for that. dave -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info:

Re: wine (Was: Re: [SLUG] Opinions, please.)

2002-04-11 Thread Rick Welykochy
Simon Wong wrote: On Fri, 2002-03-22 at 10:10, Peter Hardy wrote: http://crossover.codeweavers.com It's wine, with funky extensions. It was written to let you use win32 plugins in linux-based browsers, but also lets you run the installed programs from the commandline. The newest

Re: wine (Was: Re: [SLUG] Opinions, please.)

2002-04-11 Thread Andre Pang
On Fri, Apr 12, 2002 at 09:14:54AM +1000, Simon Wong wrote: I have a licensed copy of M$ Office and I might be tempted to make use of this for my wife (okay, maybe me too, but only occasionally). [ re: Crossover Office ] Not to take anything away from the work that CodeWeavers have done, but

Re: wine (Was: Re: [SLUG] Opinions, please.)

2002-03-21 Thread Jeff Waugh
quote who=Peter Hardy Commercial software, but well worth the price, and the money gets poured back in to wine development. Proprietary! We use Free commercial software *every* day. - Jeff -- Odd is good by the way. I knew normal in high school and normal hates

Re: wine (Was: Re: [SLUG] Opinions, please.)

2002-03-21 Thread Peter Hardy
On Fri, 2002-03-22 at 10:39, Jeff Waugh wrote: quote who=Peter Hardy Commercial software, but well worth the price, and the money gets poured back in to wine development. Proprietary! We use Free commercial software *every* day. Pedant! :-) Free software, with some proprietary