To answer the 'real' question.. I downloaded CodeWeavers version of wine and got some office programs to work. But ultimately ended using VMWare. -----Original Message----- From: Keith Jacobs [mailto:keithjacobs@blueyonder.co.uk] Sent: Tuesday, May 28, 2002 3:14 PM To: James Davis Cc: Suse-Linux-E Subject: RE: [SLE] Wine Hey ... I used it for a while but it was too much trouble... Ask me your question I will be glad to help Well apart from email, the internet and perhaps star office there does not seem too many things to use linux for, other than as a server. I'm trying to use linux, so as to lran about it, with a view to selling it as a stable solution to my customers. who on the most part have problems with workstations but also use windows applications. I myself have tried wine, on my home system, but find it will not run some of my windows apps, quicken will run but has problems and family tree maker just gives up. So am constantly switching from windows to linux and back. It also managed to screw the drive with all my data. Ideally I'd like to get right away from windows not even having it installed on the system. So the real question is if you are not using wine what are you using to run windows apps in linux. Regards Keith Jacobs -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe@suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the archives at http://lists.suse.com
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On May 29, 2002 10:44 am, James Davis wrote:
To answer the 'real' question.. I downloaded CodeWeavers version of wine and got some office programs to work. But ultimately ended using VMWare.
I'm using Codeweavers Crossover Office: http://www.codeweavers.com/products/office/ It works *much* better than regular Wine. It's also very user-friendly and Codeweavers' support is fantastic. The only problems I've had are with very advanced tasks such as COM embedding in my own software, but no regular user would *ever* do that kind of stuff. - -- James Oakley Engineering - SolutionInc Ltd. joakley@solutioninc.com http://www.solutioninc.com -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE89N6W+FOexA3koIgRAmemAJ4uwnVt0JSoA/LZA5VpraGGWZAq9QCgr7Oy 7McWupf1+mgIshMVNpgbnbU= =N755 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
On Wednesday 29 May 2002 20:58, James Oakley wrote: - The only problems I've had are with very advanced tasks such as COM - embedding - in my own software, but no regular user would *ever* do that - kind of stuff. I really wish that the WINE project would get the Palm Desktop 4 working. I would get WINE in a minute, install Office 97 and a few other things and ditch my Win 2k half of my dual boot in a blink of an eye. Cheers, Brian
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Hi All Having started this thread perhaps I can sunmmeries that the general concensus is I need to use Codeweavers Wine and for any win app I have that will not work I should find an alternative Linux app, or boot back into win98 for that odd app that I can't get to work or replace. Does everyone agree? Does anyone have a good Linux geaneology program? Regards Keith Jacobs
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Hi All
Having started this thread perhaps I can sunmmeries that the general concensus is I need to use Codeweavers Wine and for any win app I have that will not work I should find an alternative Linux app, or boot back into win98 for that odd app that I can't get to work or replace.
Does everyone agree?
Does anyone have a good Linux geaneology program?
Regards Keith Jacobs
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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On May 29, 2002 11:11 am, Brian Durant wrote:
On Wednesday 29 May 2002 20:58, James Oakley wrote: - The only problems I've had are with very advanced tasks such as COM - embedding - in my own software, but no regular user would *ever* do that - kind of stuff.
I really wish that the WINE project would get the Palm Desktop 4 working. I would get WINE in a minute, install Office 97 and a few other things and ditch my Win 2k half of my dual boot in a blink of an eye.
Crossover Office runs a fair amount of software that regular Wine does not. There are people using Outlook and under it, for example. I remember a mention of Palm desktop on the mailing list but I can't remember if it worked or not. Myself, I'm using Jpilot, which isn't perfect, but good enough for me, but I use my Palm for passwords mostly. - -- James Oakley Engineering - SolutionInc Ltd. joakley@solutioninc.com http://www.solutioninc.com -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE89OoX+FOexA3koIgRArFuAJ98iGjQz9Ilstd8SXGZIWv1xPWMagCdG+Kr 37WC3V0kBkWpI6mNi4Tk00E= =8EN6 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
On Wednesday 29 May 2002 21:47, James Oakley wrote: - Crossover Office runs a fair amount of software that regular Wine does not. - There are people using Outlook and under it, for example. I remember a - mention of Palm desktop on the mailing list but I can't remember if it - worked - or not. I did a search at http://appdb.codeweavers.com/ for "Palm" "The desktop for 3.1 works using codeweavers-wine-20011108-5.i386.rpm on redhat 7.1 Hotsync starts to connect to a serial connnected palm V but fails to hotsync. Current software is 4.01 but it fails. Old versions can be retrieved if you search around palm website." and for Palm Desktop 4.1: "Desktop fails to run under both codeweavers-wine-20011108-5.i386.rpm and wine-20020426-1.i386.rpm snap shot. The pertinent errors are: fixme:keyboard:RegisterHotKey (0x00010023,42,0x00000006,68): stub fixme:keyboard:RegisterHotKey (0x00010023,43,0x00000006,84): stub fixme:scroll:ScrollBarWndProc Unimplemented style SBS_SIZEBOX." I believe I also read some place that the USB cradle used by the Handspring Visor will not work or is not supported, something to that effect. Cheers, Brian
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