Wine ?

[Nick Mirkovich]

Dittos!!!
 CrossOver Office is an excellent commercial implementation of wine. If
you decide to make this purchase, again highly recommended, it's
available as a deb, rpm, or a bin file.
 Codeweavers has made installing wine and the Windows apps that run
under it quite painless.
 I've used CrossOver on SuSe, Mandrake, and several flavors of Debian
with equal success.
 Our email system is Lotus Notes here at work. Works great. At home, I
use it to run some M$ Office apps and Photoshop. The browser plugins
also work seamlessly with Linux versions of Firefox.
 Just a word of advice, if you plan to install this on a system that
will have multiple users that will need access to Windows apps, I
strongly recommend you purchase the Professional version. Otherwise,
you'll have to install a copy of every Windows app for each user as
opposed to them "sharing" one copy.
  

Nick
Just FYI, I don't work for Codeweavers. They just make a great product.



On Mon, 2004-10-04 at 11:16, David McGaffin wrote:
> 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
> > 
> > 
>