Using Ubuntu

[Daniel Carrera]

Jean Hollis Weber wrote:
> I have been working all day today (8 hours so far) in Ubuntu, not
> Windows. I am very pleased with myself. :-)

Yay!  I'm gland you're giving it a good try.

I've been in the Ubuntu users list the last couple of weeks and I quite 
like it. The people are friendly and very helpful. And yesterday I had a 
great experience submitting a bug report in Gnome. It was nothing like 
OOo's IssueZilla. It was a friendly-looking website that asked on 
question at a time, questions were simple, and it guided me through all 
the information for submitting the report.

In the end the bug was a duplicate, and even the "this is a duplicate" 
email was nice enough to (1) thank me for the submission and (2) 
encourage me to submit again later.

These are little things I guess, but I do like the attitude of Gnome and 
Ubuntu, of trying to make things nice for the user. Gnome is a much more 
complex project than OOo, and submitting a bug to them was much easier.

> Alas, now I have to do some things involving Acrobat, so I've rebooted 
> to Windows.

Next time you're on Ubuntu, try running it with wine (Windows Emulator). 
I don't actually expect it to work, but no harm in trying.

To install wine, go to Synaptic and search for "wine". I just noticed a 
package called "xwine", get that too. It's a GUI front-end for wine.

You'll need to figure out the path to the Acrobat executable. Perhaps 
something like:

/win/Program Files/Acrobat/Acrobat.exe

(just guessing)

You can try to run executable from the command line with:

wine /path/to/acrobat

Or start 'xwine' on the command line.

Like I said, I don't actually expect it to work. The last time I tried 
wine all I could get running was Notepad :)  But that was several years 
ago and since then Wine has reached the beta stage (version 0.9). It was 
a big news day when Wine reached beta. It took them 12 years to reach 
that stage.

Hmm... I just read this: "As of late 2005, Wine runs most software with 
good stability."  We'll see about that :)

Cheers,
Daniel.
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