wine

[Michael Hipp]

Net Llama! wrote:

>>Download a demo of Crossover Office is the best way.
> 
> 
> that's good advice if you have the $$ and xover actually can run what you
> need it to.  My understanding is that xover is trweaked to run specific
> windoze apps really well, and others not at all.

Yes but I've had some success running other apps as well, but it is very 
much a hit & miss proposition (course, same applies to wine). It has 
some proprietary install tools that can be a big help. Well worth the 
few $ if it happens to do what you need.

Frankly I think the folks at Codeweavers/Crossover have the right 
approach: pick a few important apps and make them actually work. Whereas 
wine proper seems to be forever stuck with everything 
almost-but-not-quite working.

If ya just gotta run a Windows app here's my short list:
1. rdesktop into an NT box
2. spring for a copy of VMware
3. spring for Crossover office

Michael