Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (4600 mails)

[Gary <gv-dated-3218842.baefe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, Jan 05, 2004 at 11:40:17AM -0600 or thereabouts, Jeffrey W. Zents wrote:
> Paul W. Abrahams wrote:
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> >Perhaps the WINE people will eventually be ambitious enough to make up a 
> >list of critical apps (including at least one popular Windows tax program, 
> >clearly) and get those to run.  If Wine could run, say, TurboTax and 
> >QuickBooks, Linux on the desktop would be a more feasible alternative for 
> >a lot of folks.
> >Paul Abrahams

> because I need Turbo-Tax, Quicken to contact my bank, and I love to use 
> Dragon Naturally Speaking to dictate my dissertation into.  If I had 
> those on Linux I would spend the time trying to make my 5 yr. old's 
> games run under Wine or VMware.  But since I have to be in XP anyway, I 
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> 
> Jeff Zents

Jeff, 
Since v4 of VMWare, Dragon or ViaVoice runs perfectly in VMW, under
SUSE, or any distro. I use it all the time.

-- 
Gary
Chaos, panic, pandemonium - my work here is done