On 12/07/2004 02:50 PM Steve Litt wrote:
On Tuesday 07 December 2004 01:21 pm, Scott G. Hall wrote:
You can use CodeWeaver's CrossOver Office to run Quickbooks and QB-Pro.
I have CrossOver 3.0.1 running on both a 2.4 Debian kernel (Xandros 2.5
Business which includes CrossOver) and on Mandrake 10.0, a 2.6 kernel,
and running QB-Pro 2003 just fine. I'll be upgrading Mandrake to 10.1,
CrossOver to 4.0 and Quickbooks Pro to 2005, and I can post here my
experience with compatibility (currently untested by CodeWeavers).
My Crossover Office was completely unstable. How did you make yours stable
enough to run apps?
SteveT
Xandros Desktop Business 2.5 shipped with CrossOver 3.0.1 as one of the
built-in packages. I did have significant trouble installing MS Office XP
(don't ask -- my wife requires it over Star Office). I had to follow a
bunch of threads from Microsoft about known installation bugs (on a native
MS-Win system) and upgrade patches and manually edit registry settings.
Once I got MS-Ofc XP installed though, installing and running the Quicken
products worked like a champ.
I posted on the Xandros forums, under "Re: MS Ofc XP on CrossOver" posted
on 'Wed Oct 27, 2004 11:58 pm' a long explanation of what I did to get it
to work. I also forwarded it to Codeweavers, and they promised me that
they would address the problem (at least partially) in X-Ofc 4.0.
When I ordered and installed another copy of X-Ofc-3.0.1 from CodeWeavers
for my Mandrake 10.0 system, I went through the same steps to get MS-Ofc
to install -- even though I wasn't going to be using it. I also peeked
at some of the installation settings the Xandros system used and tweaked
to match. From there QuickBooks Pro 2003 and TaxCut 2003 installed and
ran just fine.
{ I'll send a copy of the detailed posting to you personally offline.
Anyone else interested in a copy, just email me. }
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Scott G. Hall
Raleigh, NC, USA
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