Running MS Office (Word) on Edubuntu?

[Joseph Bishay]

Hello Ville,

That 'play_on_Linux' application looks perfect.  Were you able to
open/close your /home folder files easier?

I'm wondering if anyone has experience with it in an LTSP environment?
 Will it play nicely with multi-users?

Thank you
Joseph

On Wed, Jun 12, 2013 at 2:44 PM, Ville Pöntinen <pontvil at gmail.com> wrote:
> Office 2010 installs and runs nicely if you use play_on_linux.
>
> On linux desktop anyway but thats what i would try on ltsp.
>
> 12.6.2013 21.04 "Frank Van Damme" <frank.vandamme at gmail.com> kirjoitti:
>>
>> 2013/6/11 Joseph Bishay <joseph.bishay at gmail.com>:
>> >
>> > I've been asked to figure out how to have staff access MS Word using
>> > our network.  OpenOffice / Libre Office apparently isn't good enough
>> > (compatibility issues when moving files between one location that's
>> > Word and one that's Libre Office).
>> >
>> > Is this possible? I know there's software like Wine and Crossover -
>> > are those the recommended ways to do this?  Or remote desktop to a
>> > Windows server? If that is the case, will the staff still be able to
>> > access their LTSP home files?
>> >
>> > I appreciate your feedback!
>>
>> No single answer is going to be the best to this question, but my
>> advice would be: try Wine and test it. The "normal" wine versions are
>> installable by ubuntu packages so that's practical; with some luck you
>> may run the installer out of the box. Support is not perfect but it
>> seems to work:
>> http://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=application&iId=11
>>
>> If you're going to try any proprietary derivative of Wine, Crossover
>> or bordeaux are probably the best bet in your situation.
>> http://wiki.winehq.org/ThirdPartyApplications
>>
>> I personally would only start looking at remote application solutions
>> if none of the above suits your needs; for example a Citrix server to
>> run just the Office applications, which will be a lot less practical
>> to your end user because the integration with their desktop will be
>> bad (things like drag and drop).
>>
>> --
>> Frank Van Damme
>> "My new computer came with Windows 7. Windows 7 is much more user-
>> friendly
>> than Windows Vista. I don’t like that.”
>>     -- Sheldon Cooper, The Big Bang Theory
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