What is crossover?
I've seen lots of references here to CrossOver. Just what is it and where is the website with information on it? Paul
I had the same question. I then received some email from Jim Gettys on the internal Linux list regarding Crossover and fonts. http://www.codeweavers.com/home/ Crossover Office is a commercial product based on WINE which allows you to run MS Office and Lotus Notes under Linux. Unlike Win4Lin, this does not require a Windows license. The cost is $54.95 US. Based on what they do, I may consider this a donation to a good cause because much of their research is coming back to the Open Source community. On 29 Mar 2002 at 14:52, Paul W. Abrahams wrote:
I've seen lots of references here to CrossOver. Just what is it and where is the website with information on it?
Paul
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On Friday 29 March 2002 03:12 pm, Jerry Feldman wrote:
I had the same question. I then received some email from Jim Gettys on the internal Linux list regarding Crossover and fonts. http://www.codeweavers.com/home/ Crossover Office is a commercial product based on WINE which allows you to run MS Office and Lotus Notes under Linux. Unlike Win4Lin, this does not require a Windows license. The cost is $54.95 US. Based on what they do, I may consider this a donation to a good cause because much of their research is coming back to the Open Source community.
Does Crossover also run Quicken, TurboTax, and Internet Explorer, I wonder? I mention IE because I've found websites that display badly or not at all under the browsers available under Linux. Paul
----- Original Message ----- From: "Paul W. Abrahams" <abrahams@acm.org> To: <suse-linux-e@suse.com> Sent: Friday, March 29, 2002 3:06 PM Subject: Re: [SLE] What is crossover?
Does Crossover also run Quicken, TurboTax, and Internet Explorer, I wonder? I mention IE because I've found websites that display badly or not at all under the browsers available under Linux.
Paul
CrossOver Plugin handles most Windows centric browser plugins to enhance your web surfing. It is quite a nice product. I would imagine CodeWeavers are working towards making all Windows apps work in CrossOver in some way. I specifically asked about Visio and was told it would be supported in the near future. I would hope they are working towards a CrossOver Suite for this that covers Office, plugins and other common apps. CodeWeavers seems very open and responsive. And, as previously mentioned, they give back to overall Wine development. But, to directly answer your question about IE. It appearently does work in CrossOver Office but is not officially supported. If you look at their site, they have screenshots of IE running. --- David Monk CCNA, MCSE david@purplebear.net The more things change, the more they stay insane.
On Friday 29 March 2002 07:47 pm, Chad Whitten wrote:
it works, i was able to pull up webpages with it after installing with office plugin (of course i didnt try to update to ie 6 or anything) and i didnt test out things like java or active x, but for viewing html it seemed to work fine. it was kinda weird seeing ie start up on linux though
-- Chad Whitten Network/Systems Administrator neXband Communications cwhitten@nexband.com
They have screen shots on their web site. Yes, IE runs but is not fully supported. Note that there is also a Crossover Plugin. As I mentioned, these are commercial products. On 29 Mar 2002 at 16:06, Paul W. Abrahams wrote:
On Friday 29 March 2002 03:12 pm, Jerry Feldman wrote:
I had the same question. I then received some email from Jim Gettys on the internal Linux list regarding Crossover and fonts. http://www.codeweavers.com/home/ Crossover Office is a commercial product based on WINE which allows you to run MS Office and Lotus Notes under Linux. Unlike Win4Lin, this does not require a Windows license. The cost is $54.95 US. Based on what they do, I may consider this a donation to a good cause because much of their research is coming back to the Open Source community.
Does Crossover also run Quicken, TurboTax, and Internet Explorer, I wonder? I mention IE because I've found websites that display badly or not at all under the browsers available under Linux.
Paul
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