A most interesting concept (OSS software on Windows) and a damn good way of converting employers... Something else that may / may not assist...
I was playing around with the latest Win4Lin from the December 2002 APC cover CD (a 30 day trial), running Windows 98 under it.... I installed Outlook 2002 (from Office XP - SWMBO likes it, and I can't get the Toshiba e740 to sync with evolution... YET !!!) and found myself quite amazed... It runs at least DOUBLE the speed that it runs "natively" on Windows 98 - to test this (although I have no specific timing figures yet) I dropped a spare removable HD in, installed Win98 on it and then Outlook 2002... Slow as.... There is some very clever code under the hood with Win4Lin to get this appreciable speed difference - and without crashing while receiving email, as it has a tendency to do "natively"... The point: how come Microsoft's own OS can't run their own products at this speed and with this stability ? Jon > > > There have been some nibbles for porting GNOME stuff to Windows, to achieve > > the same kind of advantage that OpenOffice has... Hook 'em where they're > > comfortable, let them know it's even better on a Free platform. > > That's basically my plan. If I can show "here's an OSS[1] program which > performs as well as the proprietary one. You'd like something to be a bit > different? Sure, let me just tweak that... better? Excellent. Oh, by the > way, there's a whole Operating System which works the same way." Then I > start pressuring all of the ISVs we deal with, to either "shape up or f**k > off" WRT Linux. Residual stuff we can run on a Win2K server with TS and > rdesktop on Linux. Voila! Company transferred to Linux, my life becomes > about 100 times easier... > > - Matt -- Jon Biddell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
