For those interested, 6.5++ runs better in Wine than it does in windows. I HAD to check it out...
On Wed, Aug 20, 2008 at 1:49 PM, Dan Goldberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Have you ran R:Base for windows using Wine?? > > Dan Goldberg > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of John Croson > Sent: Wednesday, August 20, 2008 11:45 AM > To: RBASE-L Mailing List > Subject: [RBASE-L] - Re: Totally out of topic question! > > Well, since you are asking, I don't run Windows. I use Linux exclusively on > my desktop at work (Novell SuSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 10.0) and at home > OpenSuSE 10.2. > > I use VMWare Server in both locations to run Windows XP apps that won't run > in the Wine environment. > > I use OpenOffice.org for all of my office suite needs, and Evolution for > mail. The only issue that I've come across is that Word '07 documents won't > open in ooO, but I'm sure that soon someone will crack open M$'s proprietary > encoding, and bring us an import filter for that as well. > > I'd say, give up on M$. Linux runs faster, lighter, and if you need it, run > Borg software in a VM...DON'T BE ASSIMILATED!!! <- reference to STNG for you > Trekkies out there. > > > > > On Wed, Aug 20, 2008 at 1:19 PM, Gunnar Ekblad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: >> For 2 days I have run my new laptop with vista on it. >> I still have a possibilty to go back to XP. >> I also have instaled open office. insted of MS-office From an RBASE >> point of view vista is almost fine (almost I say since my national >> charcters åäö ÅÄÖ dont work in RBASE dos version, never mind I dont >> use dos version very much longer) >> >> Question >> Shall I revert back to XP? >> Shall I stay with open office and give up MS-Office? >> >> >> >> > > > > -- > John Croson > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://pcnorb.blogspot.com/ > http://pcnorb.homelinux.org/ > > > -- John Croson [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://pcnorb.blogspot.com/ http://pcnorb.homelinux.org/
