[Wolves] Your voice counts

Ron Wellsted ron at wellsted.org.uk
Sat Jan 21 17:08:25 GMT 2006


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Peter Cannon wrote:
> Hi Folks
> 
> Are you looking for an MS application to be supported under Linux?
> Novell/Suse are taking submissions to try and get the apps boys to help them 
> help you.
> 
> Its irrelevant what your Distro of choice is take two minutes to fill out the 
> form.
> 
> I'd really really love to see ACT (Now owned by Sage) supported under Linux 
> and was gob smacked to see it listed so voted, get those fingers walking. :)
> 
> http://www.novell.com/coolsolutions/tip/16646.html
> 

I just hope they do the job properly and don't take the same approach
some people did 4/5 years ago (eg B**l**d) and ship a bodged copy of the
windows application together with bodged customised version of wine and
an install script.  The abominations that were shipped like this were so
slow as to be almost unusable and were extremely prone to crashing.


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Ron Wellsted
ron at wellsted.org.uk http://www.wellsted.org.uk
N 52.567623, W 2.137621 Linux Counter No. 202120
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