On 01/01/12 10:35, Patrick Wiseman wrote: > On Sat, Dec 31, 2011 at 6:12 PM, Scott Ferguson > <prettyfly.producti...@gmail.com> wrote: >> On 01/01/12 07:16, Patrick Wiseman wrote: >>> Hi: >>> >>> I was wondering if anyone here has any experience with a Rosetta Stone >>> language program on a Linux box, either the web-based or the DVD >>> program. �I want to (re)learn French, and most reviews suggest that >>> Rosetta Stone is the best. >>> <snipped>
> At the product website, it says it > runs on Windows AND Mac OS X, which (you may or may not know) is UN*X > underneath, so there was at least a chance it might run on Linux, > depending on what format the DVD uses. (And the audio is MP3.) DVD format is not the problem. Large chunks of OSX are based on NeXT/FreeBSD - so maybe, with some work, it'll run on Debian KFreeBSD. I suspect Cocoa would need some coaxing though. I'm just guessing - but I'd suggest you don't buy the software on the strength of OSX == Unix (a posix *certification*), therefore as Debian == posix compliant == OSX software will run on it. Reading the DVD shouldn't be a problem - AFAIK Debian Linux can read all the same DVD books as OSX and Windoof. Windoof might still have problems with Rockridge - Debian Linux doesn't. > > Thanks for the help, anyway. > > Patrick > > Almost certainly VirtualBox will allow you to run the software *within* Debian. Cheers -- Iceweasel/Firefox extensions for finding answers to Debian questions:- https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/collections/Scott_Ferguson/debian/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4effdc44.3090...@gmail.com