-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Saturday 03 May 2003 19:47, Ben Rosenberg wrote:
- Hans Krueger (hans007@prexar.com) [030503 17:41]: ->Hey Ben works great ->do you know when the ver for suse8.2 going to be out? ->thanks
CXOffice 2.0 works fine in 8.2 as does CrossOver 1.2.1 for the browser plugins. The trick with CrossOver 1.2.1 is to not enable the ActiveX plugin. It causes QT to show up as a white box in the browser and makes Shockwave pages crawl. If you don't enable the ActiveX (npwine.npmozax.so) plugin you should be good to go. I hear that v2.0 of the plugin is due out sometime in the next month. I think they are working to add support for new plugins and it's a feature upgrade as well.
I don't have much use for CXOffice but CrossOver works great for me. I mainly use it for Shockwave and QT. I know I could use mplayer for QT but it's a PITA to configure..at least it was last time I looked...and I need my movie trailer fix. ;)
If we could just get Codeweavers-CX and Transgamings-WineX to interop/play nice wit each uda then BAMM! Say CYA BIll and I wouldn't wanna be ya! No wonder M$ is grasping at this, as evidence to their threatening communique to the maintainer and promoter of FoxPro for Linux (runs very very well under wine). I wager in about 1 to 1-1/2 years this is going to be all academic in 90% of the non-native software. And then maybe the M$ drones will stop trembling at the aspect of not getting their IE/Outluck fix. Though I could see a wineserver getting infected with a worm or several virii - ROFL. Now for something completely different! Have you looked at the changelog for 2.5.68 (or others in the family). I just finished reading an article about the devs for the kernel team, e.g. Rob Love, et al. The list is 0 (1) scheduler, preemptive kernel (more cooperative code execution), better latency (optimized algoritms), reworked block (a biggie things can go straight to highmem without stepping throught the lower layer - aka bounces)., better VM subsys (rmappng, smarter algorithms, better play with the VFS), better threading (NPTL libs - POSIX, 1:1-kernel:user space [though the old Linux Threads were 1:1 this should be crisper/better) and the folding ALSA in better. So desktop performance and response should really rock. Oh, and while Im digreeings wildly, think about this: <akpm@digeo.com> [PATCH] Allow panics and reboots at oops time. From: Russell Miller <rmiller@duskglow.com> A BUG or an oops will often leave a machine in a useless state. There is no way to remotely recover the machine from that state. The patch adds a /proc/sys/kernel/panic_on_oops sysctl which, when set, will cause the x86 kernel to call panic() at the end of the oops handler. If the user has also set /proc/sys/kernel/panic then a reboot will occur. The implementation will try to sleep for a while before panicing so the oops info has a chance of hitting the logs. The implementation is designed so that other architectures can easily do this in their oops handlers. I remember you saying something about wanting to be able to recover machines when they crash with out having to physically walk over to them and init a manual warm/cold boot. Not quite being able to send a sig to init a reboot from the remote console, but not bad for a start IMHO Anyway, the new thread, block layer, vm, etc.. should make things like wine easier to manage in terms of performance, and users space experiences. I now many are less than enthusiastic about running non-native programs, but getting more 3rd party SW running on Linux boxen isn't all bad either. I personally would love to be able to use PhotoShop in linux, wine is for now my only hope. And presently in both the vanilla and winex versions it will start and always lock. So, being able to do skins in Linux would be nice (gimp is nice but dealing with the alpha layers is easier in PS). Ok, I've babbled enough. Cheers, Curtis. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE+tgwD7WVLiDrqeksRAmoUAJ9CzkMT9oS1d4jlfv30suplXTdKeQCg2Gam PjYBC4o7QavZcTmN21ZfNmo= =yrwu -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----