Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (3217 mails)

[John Pettigrew <john@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

In a previous message, Liam Marshall <admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Can I somehow still run Office XP on SUSE? I have heard that there is a
> program that allows for the running of Windows programs on Linux.. Would
> that work?

Yes - CrossoverOffice is a tweaked wine build available from Codeweavers
(http://www.codeweavers.com/) and it runs MS Office extremely well. I use it
all day, every day for my work on Office2000 with no problems and OfficeXP is
fully supported as well. The only downside is that it's not as fast as running
it under Windows but for most purposes this won't be a problem I'd have
thought.

> I am assuming that I won't need to runn Samba if I am in a total linux
> environment (server and workstations) I assume that all I need is to run NIS
> server and clients. Is that correct?

NIS, Samba, whatever you like.

> I am assuming that I can buy one copy of Professional, use it to load the
> server and use it to load workstations as well. Is it legal to do so

Legal, proper and encouraged. However, the support would only apply to the
first machine AIUI - but give that this would be the server, that's hardly a
problem  :-)

HTH

John
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