Re: Trying `Wine'
--- Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Owen Heisler wrote: > > On Fri, 2006-07-21 at 15:53 -0500, Ron Johnson > wrote: > >> Owen Heisler wrote: > >>> Surely there are better suggestions than that. > Crossover is commercial! > >>> $40 > >> People who install Debian also using commercial > s/w? > >> > >> Oh, the horror! Quick, call RMS > > > > ;) I figure that someone who is using Linux and > doesn't want to use > > Windows would like to steer clear of most > commercial software until all > > open-source alternatives have been eliminated. > If one of your motives in using Linux is to save money--and this is certainly a reasonable motive, though perhaps not the most important one--you should indeed do that. But much commercial software does run properly using WINE. Robert "Tim" Kopp http://analytic.tripod.com/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Trying `Wine'
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Owen Heisler wrote: > On Fri, 2006-07-21 at 15:53 -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: >> Owen Heisler wrote: >>> Surely there are better suggestions than that. Crossover is commercial! >>> $40 >> People who install Debian also using commercial s/w? >> >> Oh, the horror! Quick, call RMS > > ;) I figure that someone who is using Linux and doesn't want to use > Windows would like to steer clear of most commercial software until all > open-source alternatives have been eliminated. $ apt-cache show vrms Package: vrms [snip] Description: virtual Richard M. Stallman The vrms program will analyze the set of currently-installed packages on a Debian GNU/Linux system, and report all of the packages from the non-free tree which are currently installed. . Future versions of vrms will include an option to also display text from the public writings of RMS and others that explain why use of each of the installed non-free packages might cause moral issues for some in the Free Software community. This functionality is not yet included. Tag: suite::debian, use::checking, works-with::software:package - -- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson LA USA Is "common sense" really valid? For example, it is "common sense" to white-power racists that whites are superior to blacks, and that those with brown skins are mud people. However, that "common sense" is obviously wrong. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.3 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFEwUcCS9HxQb37XmcRAtwAAKC/43kMEkDYhseGxEymcr57IrcOMACfVrkJ EEz3iPbTw+KU3JUgddc6Rps= =APRk -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Trying `Wine'
On Fri, 2006-07-21 at 15:53 -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > Owen Heisler wrote: > > Surely there are better suggestions than that. Crossover is commercial! > > $40 > > People who install Debian also using commercial s/w? > > Oh, the horror! Quick, call RMS ;) I figure that someone who is using Linux and doesn't want to use Windows would like to steer clear of most commercial software until all open-source alternatives have been eliminated. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Trying `Wine'
Ron Johnson wrote: > People who install Debian also using commercial s/w? > > Oh, the horror! Quick, call RMS He would say that commercial is not the same as non-free. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Trying `Wine'
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Owen Heisler wrote: > On Fri, 2006-07-21 at 10:48 -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: >> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- >> Hash: SHA1 >> >> Rodolfo Medina wrote: >>> On Thu, Jul 20, 2006 at 10:24:37PM +0200, Rodolfo Medina wrote: >> [snip] >>> Thanks. I installed Wine with `apt-get install wine', but don't >>> manage to do anything, not only install ICQ! In particular, when >>> I do: `wine icq5_1_setup.exe' it requires internet explorer >>> installation, but then I can manage to install it. But I don't >>> even manage to run notepad. Do you have any suggestion? >> Crossover Office. > > Surely there are better suggestions than that. Crossover is commercial! > $40 People who install Debian also using commercial s/w? Oh, the horror! Quick, call RMS - -- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson LA USA Is "common sense" really valid? For example, it is "common sense" to white-power racists that whites are superior to blacks, and that those with brown skins are mud people. However, that "common sense" is obviously wrong. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.3 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFEwT7fS9HxQb37XmcRAv5BAKCM28msA8xu9L0nQIMOlNr1d1mnuwCeOwNw zOCOqCYzkafNAdU5kZsD2Xo= =L4ed -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Trying `Wine'
On Fri, 2006-07-21 at 10:48 -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Rodolfo Medina wrote: > > On Thu, Jul 20, 2006 at 10:24:37PM +0200, Rodolfo Medina wrote: > [snip] > > Thanks. I installed Wine with `apt-get install wine', but don't > > manage to do anything, not only install ICQ! In particular, when > > I do: `wine icq5_1_setup.exe' it requires internet explorer > > installation, but then I can manage to install it. But I don't > > even manage to run notepad. Do you have any suggestion? > > Crossover Office. Surely there are better suggestions than that. Crossover is commercial! $40 But, I haven't had much luck with wine on Debian Stable. Backports didn't have a wine package last time I checked, and I've never tried building it from source. Still, you may want to try winetools (or something like that, it is on winehq.org in the downloads) if it will work with the stable version of wine. It helped me when I was trying out wine the first time. Also, winehq.org has an application database that may have the ICQ program you're wanting to use listed. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Trying `Wine'
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Rodolfo Medina wrote: > On Thu, Jul 20, 2006 at 10:24:37PM +0200, Rodolfo Medina wrote: [snip] > Thanks. I installed Wine with `apt-get install wine', but don't > manage to do anything, not only install ICQ! In particular, when > I do: `wine icq5_1_setup.exe' it requires internet explorer > installation, but then I can manage to install it. But I don't > even manage to run notepad. Do you have any suggestion? Crossover Office. - -- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson LA USA Is "common sense" really valid? For example, it is "common sense" to white-power racists that whites are superior to blacks, and that those with brown skins are mud people. However, that "common sense" is obviously wrong. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.3 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFEwPdLS9HxQb37XmcRAnIzAKDnfKbEiQtv9oLBLAoprVr42f5mAgCePXYW EeVSq3xWnsBdd4zajz2t3aA= =ZiHF -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
