>From http://www.winehq.org/
"Wine is an Open Source implementation of the Windows API on top of X, OpenGL, and Unix." In short, Wine emulates a Windows environment, fooling windows binaries to run on Unices. On Wed, Aug 20, 2008 at 2:22 PM, Gunnar Ekblad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Forgive us inliterate > What is Wine ( I know how to zip it but not how to use it is on a omputer?) > ----- Original Message ----- From: "John Croson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "RBASE-L Mailing List" <[email protected]> > Sent: Wednesday, August 20, 2008 9:19 PM > Subject: [RBASE-L] - Re: Totally out of topic question! > > > 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/ > > > -- John Croson [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://pcnorb.blogspot.com/ http://pcnorb.homelinux.org/
