Linux Set to Challenge Windows on Desktop

Reuters | 1/12/2003 | Reed Stevenson

[A CA Guy]

http://www.winehq.com/download/

The above is free and is supposed to run Windows programs.
Hope so!

[A CA Guy]

Still a great deal considering they want $119 for Lindows on the other website.
$7.50 for a 56K modem, $7 fpr a 3.5 drive, $39 on sale for a writable CD, there was a recent $29 17" monitor at Best Buy and you are ready to go.

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

Is this the Fry machine with the Far East, Japan or Korean version of Linux installed on it? It has an Office system also, I think!

[A CA Guy]

It was bought and because I am getting ready for re-carpeting my house I haven't played with it yet.

I left it for inspection with a buddy who is very interested into investigating my Linux system on the machine. I told him to knock himself out!

[Joe Bonforte]

"It Ain't Necessarily So." Mono will be there.

There are no current plans for Mono to support the full Windows Forms libraries. Until then, Mono cannot host smart client apps developed for Windows. It's theoretically possible, sure, but I don't see Microsoft spending the money to do it, and I don't know who else would be willing to spend it either. Maybe some Open Source people will eventually take it on, but it'll be a tough project.

[vollmond]

Also, check out the magazine Linux Format. It's a monthly british magazine that comes with Linux related CD's (or a DVD) every issue. The Christmas issue came with 2-disk Mandrake 9.0 distro. I've been buying the magazine for about a year at the local MicroCenter, and it runs about $15.00.

[Aeronaut]

you want to know if those windows programs will run under the Linux

I have a lot of Win based programs I need to use (PhotoShop, Illustrator, Quark, Dreamweaver, Fireworks, Flash, etc.). Any chance of these working if I install Linux? I couldn't afford to buy all new of all of the above, and I need 'em all.

[Stentor]

i just converted a box to RH 8.0, smooth setup even for SWB DSL.

And you can download a firewall called Firestarter, answer a couple of questions on the install, and you have home internet sharing using network address translation.

[rdb3]

Could I run Office 2000 and add my cd-rw hardware and run it's software? In general.

To do this, you are going to need the CrossOver plugin found here.

Birth of Tha SYNDICATE, the philosophical heir to William Lloyd Garrison.
101 things that the Mozilla browser can do that Internet Explorer cannot.

[rdb3]

They throw their hands in the air, say: "Too much for me!" and that's it.

This is precisely why I steer new users away from distros like Slackware (which is my favorite Uniplexed Information and Computing System, err... UNIX flavor). Mandrake is the perfect place for those interested to start.

Lastly, I find no joy in trashing the *nix upstarts. FWIW, no one is a Windows expert off the bat either. Therefore, I'm more than happy to help those who ask.

Birth of Tha SYNDICATE, the philosophical heir to William Lloyd Garrison.
101 things that the Mozilla browser can do that Internet Explorer cannot.

[B Knotts]

If speech recognition ever gets real, for example, you can bet it will do it on Windows.

VoiceType Dictation was in the box with IBM OS/2 Warp 4. That was in 1996. I used it on a Pentium 120. It was a bit of a hassle to go through all the training exercises, but it worked fairly well. Best for someone with their own office with a closed door, though. :-P

[rdb3]

I've posted to freerepublic from it using Pine.

Pine? Try doing it with Lynx. ;-)

Birth of Tha SYNDICATE, the philosophical heir to William Lloyd Garrison.
101 things that the Mozilla browser can do that Internet Explorer cannot.

[B Knotts]

There is a semi-proprietary product based on WINE called CrossOver Office that lets you run Microsoft Office.

Otherwise, there is a limited set of Windows applications that will run under WINE. You can check out the status for many applications here.

Linux, using WINE, is not really a satisfactory platform for running Windows applications, though. If you do it occasionallly, you might find it tolerable, but the best programs to run on Linux are Linux programs.

[amigatec]

I have Linux running on 2 ½ boxes.

First is a P150 running IPCop Firewall (http://www.ipcop.org/cgi-bin/twiki/view/IPCop/WebHome) Uses very minimal hareware. This box is almost 100% maintenance free. It is almost hands off.


Second is a Pentium Pro 200 running as a mandrake server. I use it mostly as an Internet DNS server, my ISP’s DNS server is slow.

Third is a Dualboot W2k and Mandrake 9 box.

I use Openoffice on all my computers and have very good luck with it. In fact I downloaded some Powerpoint files last summer and viewed them with Openoffice on Linux.

I use a JetDirect 300 as a Print server and it is easier to set up with Linux then with Windows!!!

I would suggest anybody with an older Pentium box to give Mandrake a try. If you can install Windows you can install mandrake.

[krb]

Check out my post #40...

[amigatec]

One more point I will add for you Modem users, Linux may not work with your internal modem. If you have a “Winmodem” don’t expect it to work (see http://www.linmodems.org/ for more info).
Winmodems are a piece of junk. I have used both internal and external modems and externals are faster. I bought an external no-name 56k, V92 from COMPUSA for about $50.

I use Samba and LinNeighborhood to network Windows and Linux, Windows doesn’t even the other boxes are using Linux.

I use X-CDRoast to burn CD’s

One more point I will add concerning the JetDirect. I had to download 2 different pieces of software from HP to get it to work with W2k but with Linux I installed CUPS and with about 5 clicks I had both the JetDirect and my HP932 printer running.

[Sally II]

Lindows is a low budget Linux operating system. I found an article about it on FR last year when Walmart started offering the product. About Walmart offered Lindows, Walmart Lindows for sale, the Lindows site. I haven't heard much about it since it came out for sale, but at the time it was expected to give Windows a run for its money, by offering a competative product at 1/2 or 1/3 of the price.

[Wonder Warthog]

"What? No mention of Lindows?"

As they say in Texas, "Lindows" = all hat, no cattle. Lindows two claims to fame are its name and its original claim to run Windows software under Linux. They have since backed off on the second claim, so all they have left is the name.

To run Windows apps under Linux, the best bet is Codeweaver's commercial version of WINE.