On Monday 04 October 2004 11:01 am, Scot L. Harris wrote: > On Mon, 2004-10-04 at 10:01, Pasha wrote: > > Rajiv wrote: > > > Dear All, > > > What is the limitation of wine. Can I use wine for applications > > > like smartdraw,Microsoft word,etc. Is there any alternative to wine? > > > > You probably won't be able to run MS Office applications with wine > > only. You may have more success if you set it up to use existing > > windows partition data. The better way is to use commercial applications > > based on wine - Crossover Office (www.codeweavers.com) and cedega > > (www.transgaming.com). Crossover Office gives support for MS Office and > > many other windows applications, cedega has DirectX implementation and > > used to run games. > > Alternatives to wine would be VMware and Win4Lin. They allow you to run > > a windows OS (Win4Lin allows only Win95/98) on a hardware emulation. > > I tried crossover office and while it technically worked it was not > really acceptable. In my case I was trying to get it to work with > Quickbooks which is really only partially supported. I found it to be > painfully slow and it had problems with some of the features of > quickbooks. I was able to access the basic data but if you do anything > very fancy with the tools available it may or may not work as expected. > > As a result of that test that company will most likely move over to > SQL-ledger which is a native accounting package under Linux using > postgesql as the database back end. > > I have found that trying to keep one foot in Windows and the other in > Linux for most things is counter productive. I converted my laptop to > linux many months ago and have not run windows on it since. I did not > have any issues with dual booting things as I did not need to do that. > Finding native tools under linux for most things is fairly easy > anymore. I tried crossover office for quickbooks since it is very > difficult to do a cut over for such an application. But after that > experiment I believe the correct approach is going to be to setup a > second system with the new package under linux and run it in parallel > for several months to make sure everything works as expected and to get > everyone trained on the new software. Once that is done the windows > system will be shutdown forever. This won't start until the current > years financial records are closed out. > > For most other applications there are very good and in most cases better > native alternatives under Linux, sometimes several to choose from. Most > people, IMHO, should just make the switch. Prior to making the switch > they need to list all the of applications and functions they use the > computer for and research what is available under Linux. Then the > transition should be pretty smooth. Setting up a dual booting system > just adds another layer of complexity over the whole process. One that > I believe is not worth the effort. > > > > -- > Scot L. Harris > webid@xxxxxxxxxx > > O.K., fine. I have to agree with Scot. Just last week I was using my Linux system to play games on. I am using Cedega (aka WineX) and things had been running just fine, but on Friday afternoon I was playing one of the windows games and the game froze and the hard disk started to grind in a bad way. System was hard locked, had to hit the reset key. Once the box came back up I was unable to boot becuase of data corruption on the drive. This is the second time I have had this happen to me, both times WineX and a different game. So my leason learned here is this. If the app is not written for Linux then I am not going to be running it in Linux with Wine. I am going to convert my PC back to a Windose box and make it a gaming system. I have my laptop for Linux. But on a more postive note, I run just plain Wine on my office PC so I can use Lotus Notes and it works like a charm. -Wayne
