On Monday 14 February 2005 11:56, Ernest Byaruhanga wrote: > hi, > > As a side note, whoever wants to run the following appz from within > his favorite Linux/Unix may contact me for CrossOver Office:
On the list or off the list? Either way I am interested. > > - Office XP, Macromedia stuff, Adobe stuff, Eudora, blah blah.. > (oh, IE also works well ;-) ) > > Numerous people got it last year, i hope they enjoyed it. > > Cheers, > > Ernest. > > Kiggundu Mukasa wrote: > > Part 1 and Part 2 are the two links below. > > > > http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/eserver/articles/es- > > MigratingWin32toLinux.html?ca=dgr-lnxw01Win32CPPtoLinux1 > > http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/eserver/library/es- > > win32linux.html?ca=dgr-lnxw01Win32CPPtoLinux2 > > > > There are many ways to port and migrate from the Win32 C/C++ > > applications to the pSeries platform. You can use freeware or 3rd party > > tools to port the Win32 application code to move to Linux. In our > > scenario, we decided to use a portability layer to abstract the system > > APIs call. A portability layer will offer our application the following > > benefits: > > > > * Independence from the hardware > > o Independence from the operating system > > o Independence from changes introduced from release to > > release on operating systems > > * Independence from operating system API styles and error codes > > * Ability to uniformly place performance and RAS hooks on calls to > > the OS > > > > Because the Windows environment is quite different from the pSeries > > Linux environment, porting across UNIX platforms is considerably easier > > than porting from the Win32 platform to the UNIX platform. This is > > expected, as many UNIX systems share a common design philosophy and > > provide a lot of similarities at the application layer. However, the > > Win32 APIs are in limited in the task of porting to Linux. This article > > identifies issues due to differences in design between Linux and > > Win32.............. > > > > **************** ***************************** > > Kiggundu Mukasa # Computer Network Consultancy### > > KYM-NET LTD. # Intranets & Internet Solutions# > > Plot 80 Kanjokya Street > > P.O. Box 24284 Kampala, Uganda > > Tel: +256 77 972255 > > +256 71 221141 > > Fax: +256 31 262122 > > ***************************************************************** > > _______________________________________________ > LUG mailing list > [email protected] > http://kym.net/mailman/listinfo/lug > %LUG is generously hosted by INFOCOM http://www.infocom.co.ug/ > > _______________________________________________ > LUG mailing list > [email protected] > http://kym.net/mailman/listinfo/lug > %LUG is generously hosted by INFOCOM http://www.infocom.co.ug/ -- ************************************************************************ Lule George William (Mr) Network and Systems Administrator Uganda Martyrs University, Nkozi P.O. Box 5498 Kampala Uganda /* If you are not living and learning, then you are dumb and dying*/ _______________________________________________ LUG mailing list [email protected] http://kym.net/mailman/listinfo/lug %LUG is generously hosted by INFOCOM http://www.infocom.co.ug/
