[Gloucs] Lindows: Beyond Windows, Before Linux

[Dave Addison]

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In message <003801c299f8$58c156c0$28c887d9@liz>, Barrie=20
<bjh@good-news.fsnet.co.uk> writes
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>Hi Folks,
>
>Thought you may like to have a read of this article that arrived from my o=
ld
>friend Fred Langa this morning...
>
>The article, although long, seems to be pretty comprehensive and I have
>added direct "click through" links to take you straight to the internet si=
tes
>that are mentioned so you can get the full picture of the story, and also
>may be of use to any new users of Linux based systems to get useful
>information to help general development.
>
>As some of the members who joined early on when I first started the LUG
>for this area are aware, I have always thought that one of the major
>problems for business computer users who want the advantages of the
>stability of the Linux Platform but wish to use many of the programmes
>designed for "Microsoft Windows", has been the compatability problems
>between the two systems and I have followed developments in this area
>very closely...
>Please read on and I would be very interested in any "feedback" from
>members...
>
Major snip

I bought a copy of the cxoffice package from codeweavers. This is a=20
version of Wine with a GUI programme installer. I'm now quite happily=20
running most of MSOffice apart from Access under Redhat 7.2. I can't=20
really tell the difference between running on Linux and running under=20
Windows XP apart from network connection in Outlook seeming slower.

I've also been playing with the Bynari connector for Outlook (it's the=20
only reason I'm running Outlook, honest). This allows Outlook to treat=20
an open source imap mail server like MS Exchange. This is pretty=20
impressive so far (even though I'm running it over an ISDN line)
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Dave Addison

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