Subject: Re: Solution, anybody?
From: Tim Johnson (tim@johnsons-web.com)
Date: Tue Sep 16 2003 - 17:00:49 AKDT
* Stephen King <sking@chartercollege.edu> [030916 16:27]:
>
> Yeah, they specifically said they want to keep Word Smurfect, so
> Open/Star office and AbiWord are non-solutions. As for the other
> ones...Tim already suggested them off list but here are my concerns:
>
> <snipped from my other e-mail>
> Thanks, but I need more info. Wine doesn't have anything about either
> app, under their "Supported Applications" list or under their newsgroup.
> Their Silver list of apps is longer than their Gold list of apps, for
> that matter, and that kinda scares me. I'd need to know that both apps
> would work on the system before I could, in good conscience, recommend
> it.
Don't really know much about Wine myself, either.
But I use Win4Lin extensively.
You might want to check this out
http://www.linuxmafia.com/wpfaq/
Could get you started on avoiding M$ altogether.
> As for Win4Lin...of course that'll work. Maybe I misunderstand it, but
> you have to get a copy of Linux, buy (for $90) a copy of Win4Lin, and
> then you still have to install a version of Windows over the top of
> everything. Now you're still doing homage to Microsoft, paying somebody
> else $90 at the same time, and getting a three-tier (four, if you count
> the app) troubleshooting stack to go through. Am I correct, or do I
> misunderstand how that works? If I am correct...be interesting to try
> to get a version of Knoppix to run Win4Lin and then Windows 98 and then
> a Windows app or two...have a fake OS running a fake OS *snicker*. =20
> </snip>
> So...anybody on the list use either Wine or Win4Lin with WordPerfect and
> Timeslips? =20
I've not had any problems with any Windows applications in Win4Lin,
once installed, it has been trouble-free. Since it uses the
linux filesystem, I can write code for Windows on Linux and then
deploy on the same machine without rebooting.
tim
> Stephen
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Leif Sawyer [mailto:lsawyer@gci.com]=20
> Sent: Tuesday, September 16, 2003 4:09 PM
> To: aklug@aklug.org
> Subject: RE: Solution, anybody?
>
>
> Stephen King writes:
> > Hey, folks...got a very small company that wants to get away from the=20
> > 'world according to Microsoft'. They've only got two computers in a=20
> > peer to peer situation. Both operators are able and willing to face a
>
> > Linux-sized learning curve. Unfortunately they're running Word=20
> > Perfect for document creation (being a legal firm, this is a very=20
> > important thing for them) and Timeslips for hourly tracking and=20
> > billing. They're really hot on not wanting to lose those two
> apps,
> > but neither of the apps seems to be supported on Linux platforms.
>
>
> Well, aside from the obvious Win4Lin and Wine solutions, you might look
> at Open/Star office, or AbiWord (as part of Gnome-Office 1.0)
>
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