I've used it for about two years now for things like office, IE. Seems to have always worked well, but I try to use it only under dire circumstances, as it is a little blasphemous. :-)<br><br><p><DEFANGED_div><DEFANGED_span class="gmail_quote">
On 8/5/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">Michael Mol</b> <<a href="mailto:mikemol@gmail.com">mikemol@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</DEFANGED_span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" DEFANGED_style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Just because WINE is free doesn't mean Codeweavers' Crossover Office<br>(Or even Transgaming's Cedega) won't work better for you. Codeweavers<br>and Cedega each optimize or enhance their copies of the WINE source to<br>better suit their customers' needs.
<br><br>Also, now that VMWare is free (at least for my uses), if you already<br>have an available Windows license, you can run Windows software<br>natively under Windows, through VMWare.<br><br>But try WINE first.<br><br>
On 8/5/06, Bob Kline <<a href="mailto:bob.kline@gmail.com">bob.kline@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>> So I was told after I sent the message. And<br>> of course WINE is free.<br>><br>> -Bob<br>><br>>
<br>> On 8/5/06, Tim Schmidt <<a href="mailto:timschmidt@gmail.com">timschmidt@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>> > On 8/5/06, Bob Kline <<a href="mailto:bob.kline@gmail.com">bob.kline@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
> > > <a href="http://www.codeweavers.com/">http://www.codeweavers.com/</a><br>> > ><br>> > > This looks like it could be a useful product<br>> > > for those needing access to some windoz
<br>> > > packages without having to run windoz.<br>> > ><br>> > > -Bob<br>> ><br>> > Yeah... crossover office plugin and server are all based on Wine<br>> > (<a href="http://www.winehq.org">
http://www.winehq.org</a>). Codeweavers is excellent about cooperating<br>> > with the community and everything they do (except the dirty hacks) is<br>> > GPL'd. They even go so far as to contribute tons of boring
<br>> > infrastructure work. In general, Wine can be convinced to run<br>> > everything crossover can with a look at the AppDB<br>> > (<a href="http://appdb.winehq.org/">http://appdb.winehq.org/</a>) and a little (very little) elbow grease.
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