[GRLUG] Crossover

[Justin Denick]

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. :-)

On 8/5/06, Michael Mol <mikemol at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Just because WINE is free doesn't mean Codeweavers' Crossover Office
> (Or even Transgaming's Cedega) won't work better for you.  Codeweavers
> and Cedega each optimize or enhance their copies of the WINE source to
> better suit their customers' needs.
>
> Also, now that VMWare is free (at least for my uses), if you already
> have an available Windows license, you can run Windows software
> natively under Windows, through VMWare.
>
> But try WINE first.
>
> On 8/5/06, Bob Kline <bob.kline at gmail.com> wrote:
> > So I was told after I sent the message.  And
> > of course WINE is free.
> >
> >    -Bob
> >
> >
> > On 8/5/06, Tim Schmidt <timschmidt at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > On 8/5/06, Bob Kline <bob.kline at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > > http://www.codeweavers.com/
> > > >
> > > > This looks like it could be a useful product
> > > > for those needing access to some windoz
> > > > packages without having to run windoz.
> > > >
> > > >    -Bob
> > >
> > > Yeah...  crossover office plugin and server are all based on Wine
> > > (http://www.winehq.org).  Codeweavers is excellent about cooperating
> > > with the community and everything they do (except the dirty hacks) is
> > > GPL'd.  They even go so far as to contribute tons of boring
> > > infrastructure work.  In general, Wine can be convinced to run
> > > everything crossover can with a look at the AppDB
> > > (http://appdb.winehq.org/) and a little (very little) elbow grease.
> > >
> > > --tim
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