Wine ?

[David McGaffin]

I can vouch for CodeWeavers.  I had their Crossover Office installed
under Mandrake Linux, and just recently switched over to Ubuntu.
Because I had Crossover installed on a volume that was not affected by
the install, I was able to run it immediately after booting the first
time in Ubuntu.  I think Crossover is the only app that I have purchased
for Linux, and it's well worth it.

- david


On Mon, 2004-10-04 at 15:36 +0100, John Levin wrote:
> On 4 Oct 2004, at 15:20, Benjamin Edwards wrote:
> 
> > Somebody will probably correct me but all the OSS for running windows 
> > software are not very easy to set up, can only run some of the 
> > software and is not exactly suitable for novices. I spent ages trying 
> > to find something that would allow me to run IE (to test websites) and 
> > think there is nothing that runs dreamweaver. There are a few 
> > commercial solutions but I don't know much about them (vmware being a 
> > well known one).
> >  
> 
> I've never had much success with WINE, but have found Crossover to work 
> (www.codeweavers.com). I installed the trial version on Slackware some 
> time ago, and was very impressed with the ease of set-up etc. It comes 
> with a universal install script - not sure of the details, but it's not 
> a regular apt-gettable deb package.
> 
> According to their site, Dreamwweaver MX gets a bronze medal for 
> functionality.
> http://www.codeweavers.com/site/compatibility/browse/name/?app_id=14
> 
> HTH
> 
> John
> 
>