[ubuntu-in] newbie in linux..

[Baishampayan Ghose]

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On Tuesday 10 October 2006 06:09 AM, balvinder singh cobbled together
some glyphs to say:
Balvinder,
>        i was pleased to go through the mail ,Thanxz alot. i also came to
> know tht realtek cards are a pain in the backside and it would be much
> better option to swiytch over to Dlink..if tht is the case ..thts the
> first thing tht i would be doing this sunday...i just wantd to know one
> more thing is it possible to user windows apps on linux ? i have read
> alot about this ,,u know people using ms office in linux..sounds strange
> .?so if you could provide me clearity on this aswell..

Well, indeed it is possible to use _some_ Windows applications on
GNU/Linux by using something called Wine [1] which is a Free and Open
Source implementation of the Win32 API on GNU/Linux. But it may not
provide very good performance in some cases where you can use CrossOver
Office [2] which is a proprietary software based on some Wine code. I
have heard that CrossOver Office is pretty good in terms of providing
good support for MS Office on GNU/Linux.
But in my opinion, OpenOffice.org is a perfectly good alternative for MS
Office and it supports importing MS Office documents. OpenOffice.org is
installed on Ubuntu by default.
Hope that helps,
Regards,
BG

[1] http://winehq.org/
[2] http://www.codeweavers.com/products/cxoffice/

PS - I am requesting you once again to join our mailing list at
https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-in and ask your
questions there. It's always better to ask the whole group than one
single person in private.

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Baishampayan Ghose <b.ghose at ubuntu.com>
Ubuntu -- Linux for Human Beings
http://www.ubuntu.com/

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