On Wed, 6 Oct 2004, H.T. Petter wrote: > A day ago I installed FC2 on an older computer to serve as a > fileserver. Now I have seen Fedora ( linux in general i think) and i > really like it. At least a lot better than WindowsXP. Therefore i > would like to use Fedora on my notebook, but there lies my problem. > This notebook is my "main-computer" which i also have to use for my > education. Is there a possibility to use the following > windows-software in fedora ( And i mean IN Fedora, not keeping windows > in a dual-boot configuration) > Solidworks 2003 Don't know. > Maple 8 Yes. > Matlab Yes. > Mathcad 2001 Doesn't appear so, but I could be wrong. > Or maybe there are general solutions that would work for all software. > And if so, would they also work with games ( like Grand Theft Auto 3, > need for speed etc. ) VMWare (run Windows in a window, where it belongs), Crossover Office, Wine are probably your best bets. > > > Harm-Tido > > > -- Matthew Saltzman Clemson University Math Sciences mjs AT clemson DOT edu http://www.math.clemson.edu/~mjs
