joe wrote:
primm wrote:
It's just that the other girls don't like the look of openoffice. So I have to keep that machine for the time being.
Ah, too bad. Have they seen oOo 2.3? In any case, I would think that the cost savings and virus resistance would justify oOo.
Another option is that they could run ms office in linux, under codeweavers wine or win4lin or similar.
Joe
It is likely that they are using only Word and Excel? I believe both of those work well under Codeweavers emulators. In which case your other associates would actually run Linux except when editing a *.doc or *.xls file in which case a native copy of Word or Excel would kick in and seamlessly allow them to use that program while you and the others use Open Office which is compatable with the documents they produce. Now, if you have some reason to *need* an XP machine (which is really a single user machine with multiple accounts on it, meaning multiple users, one at a time) a great solution is VMWare, which is a machine emulator that runs under Linux that pretends to be a computer that can run almost any guest OS, including XP...PERFECTLY. VMWare will run XP, 2000, Vista, other versions of Linux or even DOS ... all at the same time and on the same machine, provided of course you have enough memory and horsepower available, but I routinely run 10.2 SuSE and load up XP for those very few occasions where there is not yet an available substitute written to run under Linux. In that case, and without rebooting, I just launch VMWare which gives me a virtual machine running real XP which then can run whatever XP would normally run...including all of XP's viruses :) (of course, Linux keeps them contained inside of the virtual machine and won't let them contaminate the rest of the environment). The virtual machine can communicate with the external Linux network with Samba, FTP, or SSH if you wish. The virtual machine is available to any of your other office mates from their machines without having to get up and go over to the XP machine to use it. There is a free version available that allows one user at a time to access the virtual machine (just like a real hardware machine), but for a nominal charge, you can have multiple users all accessing the virtual machine simultaneously which is unlike the real XP which costs big bucks for such a license. So, Lynn, you have a lot of options and Linux forms the basis even if for some jobs you still need or want XP. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org