[Klug-general] September klug meet.

[Peter Childs]

On 18 August 2010 09:30, Karl Buckland <buckland.karl at googlemail.com> wrote:
> On 18 August 2010 09:20, David Halliday <david.halliday at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Wine might be a very good idea.
>> I have installed it (both from repository and from the binaries from the
>> WINE site) without difficulty and I have used it to run a couple of old
>> games. Perhaps it can be included with mono (I think it's mono that is used
>> to run some windows binaries isn't it?)
>> If anyone has used Wine to run MS apps and had some success it could be a
>> very good talk as many of us know of one or two apps in the workplace that
>> we rely on and that get in the way.
>
> I've used it to run some popular Windows programs, although some
> products like Crossover Linux (http://www.codeweavers.com/) add the
> extra polish that makes running certain programs (like Microsoft
> Outlook) possible. Even so, there are some incompatibility issues and
> 'gotchas' to be made aware of.  I think a basic rule of thumb would
> be: The newer the program and the more it does on screen, the greater
> the chance of it not working under Wine.
>
> Obviously a few people on this list have some decent Wine experience.
> I know Spode runs quite a few things under Wine (including some games)
> and Karl Lattimer wrote Wine-doors, although neither are likely to be
> seen at a meeting any time soon!
>

I'll go as far to say that wine under Ubuntu, "Just Works" Ok so the
program may not work just so, There is not as much to configure as
there used to be!

May we have a topic of Introlopy. And plan talks on.

1. Wine.
2. Dual Boot
3. How to use Open Source Software under Windows (Gimp, OpenOffice,
Firefox, Chrome etc)
4. Macs

Other Subjects for Future Meets.

VoIP, IRC, Instant Messanging, Twitter, etc.

Advanced Networking including VPNs, Firewalls (Advanced IPTables),
Routing. WiFi, Mobile Internet.

Just Ideas, can we start a list on the Website? More of a space to
list possible topics so they don't get lost and get people to
volunteer to speak....


Peter