Christoph Maier wrote:
On Tue, 2008-06-24 at 13:12 -0700, Joshua Penix wrote:
On Jun 24, 2008, at 12:58 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Wow. Sounds like a nightmare to develop. Then why don't
Wine guys freeze old best version that runs Office? Seems that
would generate a lot of happiness.
No, because as others in this thread have already said, Office under
Wine can easily be replaced by OpenOffice in most cases, and for the
rest there's always virtualization.
I believe the #1 productivity app that people want under Wine is
Photoshop. And if you take a look at the Platinum compatibility list
of Wine... guess what's #1? Outside Photoshop, games are probably the
next most requested items for Wine... and notice that games round out
most of the rest of the top 10.
From the above I infer that people want to use Wine for applications
that don't have comparable equivalents under Linux. It can probably
be read as a testament to OpenOffice that not too many people are bent
out of shape about not being able to run bona-fide Office under Wine.
You are assuming I run Office. I never said I did.
Then why the hell are we having this thread?
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Binary Tribe Linux Integration Services & Network Consulting
At the moment, LTSpice is my #1 productivity application under Wine.
I haven't tried to get the free versions of FPGA development tools to
run under Wine yet.
Do you know, there are several Linux tools for FPGA design? Having done
FPGA design in the past, I say that knowing that many may not have what
you need for your particular work. I was looking a year or so ago and
found a couple, but I was not set upon a particular FPGA mfg (I was also
looking at ASIC development). If you haven't already, I'd take a look at
them.
At DIGITAL and at QUAKE, we used UNIX based tools because they were the
only ones that were worth a damn. We could scale them (at DIGITAL we had
a 64-processor Alpha system that we all used for our ASIC and FPGA
development) as we needed in the standard UNIX way (get bigger hardware
or more hardware), whereas with M$ based tools, the only option was a
single PC running flaky Winsucks.
By the way, how does GIMP compare to Photoshop? In my not too competent
opinion, quite favorably ...
Well, I've turned a couple people on to The GIMP who were used to or
proficient with Photoshop. They preferred The GIMP (but it works better
under Linux than it does under Windows).
PGA
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