Eberhard Roloff wrote:
David Brodbeck wrote:
I don't know why, but Wine has always fought me at every turn. I've never successfully gotten it to run anything more complicated than Solitare.
Well, as usual, it depends.
For example I used it to run ie6/word/excel/powerpoint/outlook 2000 and the MS Office viewers successfully, but I see (nearly) no point in doing this, since Linux offers so much natively.
Imho a worthwhile exception might be the office viewers from MS.
Although they are really rarely used on my machines, they always offer you the "Officially Microsoft approved way of looking at an Office document". Rarely used but sometimes _REALLY_ useful.
I decided, after reading this thread, to give it another shot. I installed wine and winetools off Packman and tried to go through the winetools setup procedure. A lot of the setup options in winetools crashed with debugger messages. I almost got Internet Explorer 6 to run on my laptop this way -- it installed, but running it just gave me a blank window. I tried it on my desktop and couldn't even get a 'fake Windows drive' created that winetools thought was valid. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org