On Mon, 5 Jul 1999, Thomas J. Hamman wrote:
> On Mon, 05 Jul 1999, Yants wrote:
> > Great! I've got my Mandrake running pretty smoothly. However, there some
> > apps which aren't readily available to Linux, like MS-Office, Photoshop,
> > Diablo,etc. Is there a way to load Windows/Dos applications on linux. I've
> > heard people talk about Dosemu, WINE, VMWare, but these sound like more
> > cryptic linux jargon. Please advise.
> >
> > Yants
>
> For a replacement for MS Office, you might want to try Star Office which you
> can download for free. (I don't feel like hunting down URL's to copy/paste, you
> should be able to find this stuff easily enough with searches or Linux
> download sites). There is also a commercial office suite called Applixware if
> you don't mind spending some money, and a free suite being developed for KDE
> called KOffice if you don't mind either trying to get the development version
> to work or waiting for a mostly functional version to be released.
>
> For a replacement for Photoshop, there is a program called Gimp that comes with
> Mandrake, you might want to try playing around with that.
>
> As for Diablo, well, I guess you'll have to boot to Windows whenever you want
> to play, and back to Linux when you're done.
I play this under wine all the time. ;) specify a single resolution in a
X config of 640x480x16 (maybe it was 24) and copy it into place when you
want to play. lots of games need this res which is why i have seperate
config files ;)
> As for the programs you mentioned... Dosemu is a DOS emulator, and Wine is a
> Windows emulator. You'll probably need to read plenty of documentation to get
> either of them set up. Generally, the older and simpler the DOS/Windows
> program, and more likely it'll work okay in Dosemu/Wine. I wouldn't expect
> newer games and larger Win95 programs to work reliably. And vmware is a
> commercial program (Dosemu and Wine are free and open source) which is supposed
> to allow you to actually run two operating systems at the same time. I don't
> know how stable and fast that would be on a typical computer though.
>
>
> -Tom
>
