Gary wrote:
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.
Thank you for that correction. That still leaves the banking and tax issues however. Cheers! Jeff Zents