[SLUG] ? on mandrake 8.2
Hi, Mandrake automatically detected-found and configured itself to my cable internet card and worked so i had instant access without having to ring an optus tech for assistance. My question: Has Mandrake got a "win 4lin" type program in its 3 disk set, so that for example i can run downloaded windows programs like, msn messenger and worldchessnetwork automatically in linux? ...in other words if i download worldchessnetwork and select open or run from its current location will the install-setup of worldchessnetwork be successsfull and work in Mandrake? michael
Re: [SLUG] ? on mandrake 8.2
Michael Signorelli wrote: > Hi, > Mandrake automatically detected-found and configured itself to my > cable internet card and worked so i had instant access without having > to ring an optus tech for assistance. Excellent! Its always good to hear success stories. > > > > My question: > Has Mandrake got a "win 4lin" type program in its 3 disk set, so that > for example i can run downloaded windows programs like, msn > messenger and worldchessnetwork automatically in linux? good question. rpmdrake reliably informs me that there isn't something which directly does what you want. There is a version of wine which ships with Mandrake - this may or may not do what you want (wine is rougly speaking a windows emulator). My experiences with wine have been that it actually works pretty well for software released before about... 1998-99? somewhere around there. After that software starts using COM and all those other technologies that are foreign to me and wine doesn't have implemented yet. If you are going to go the wine path I suggest you use CVS wine though - wine is changing all the time. It's probably a good idea to stay on the bleeding edge for it. As an example - we used to have a girl living in our house here that needed to do some work in Microsoft Excel. I'd set up a Mandrake 7.2 system on a P1 or a 486 or something and she was running all her software remotely from my Athlon accross xdm (well, gdm but it's the xdm protocol AFAIK). I had a script which would update my CVS sources of wine and rebuild it about once every week (I think). And she was able to use almost all of Microsoft Office 97 over the network with very few problems at all. All that said - you might want to look into using Linux replacements for your windows software rather than trying to emulate windows. I think Gabber will talk MSN Messenger. I don't know about WorldChessNetwork. Is that the same as ICS? If it is the same as ICS (chessclub.com) you might want to look into eboard (http://eboard.sourceforge.net/) - which was something I found with a quick search on freshmeat. > > ...in other words if i download worldchessnetwork and select open or > run from its current location will the install-setup of > worldchessnetwork be successsfull and work in Mandrake? No. Not without a lot of fiddling and probably a lot of luck :) Do ask if you want help setting up CVS wine (or if someone has good experiences with one of the wine packages - post and let us know) or any of the chess/messaging programs. James. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] ? on mandrake 8.2
> I'd set up a Mandrake 7.2 > system on a P1 or a 486 or something and she was running all her > software remotely from my Athlon accross xdm (well, gdm but it's the xdm > protocol AFAIK). (As an aside, the display stuff is still the X protocol, but gdm/xdm and I think kdm use the XDMCP - X Display Manager Client Protocol - to get the display manager running on the client straight away.) > All that said - you might want to look into using Linux replacements for > your windows software rather than trying to emulate windows. I think > Gabber will talk MSN Messenger. GAIM is probably a better bet - Gabber relies on the jabber.org servers to talk to MSN, and they generally don't work. GAIM does all the multiprotocol stuff locally, and talks MSN, AOL, Yahoo, ICQ, etc. - Jeff -- 100% Pure Slashdot Wisdom: "Source code gives a whole new meaning to free software." -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] ? on mandrake 8.2
Hello everyone No there is nothing on the CD's that really does what you want. What you need to do is either go to http://www.codeweavers.com and get Crossover 4 Office that will not only install office but many other Microsoft programs Ive heard that MSN messenger and even AOL works fine. Even better join the Mandrake club and you will get access to the Mandrake restricted FTP servers and there are rpm version of Crossover and Star Office and many other things that are not free all in mdk rpm format so you dont even have to configure anything. Regards Richard Neal On Sun, 2002-08-04 at 19:12, Michael Signorelli wrote: > Hi, > Mandrake automatically detected-found and configured itself to my cable internet >card and worked so i had instant access without having to ring an optus tech for >assistance. > > My question: > Has Mandrake got a "win 4lin" type program in its 3 disk set, so that for example >i can run downloaded windows programs like, msn messenger and worldchessnetwork >automatically in linux? > > ...in other words if i download worldchessnetwork and select open or run from its >current location will the install-setup of worldchessnetwork be successsfull and work >in Mandrake? > > michael -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] ? on mandrake 8.2
On Sun, Aug 04, 2002, Richard Neal wrote: > On Sun, 2002-08-04 at 19:12, Michael Signorelli wrote: > > Has Mandrake got a "win 4lin" type program in its 3 disk set, so > > that for example i can run downloaded windows programs like, msn > > messenger and worldchessnetwork automatically in linux? Jabber clients (a list is at http://www.jabbercentral.org/clients/, you probably have Gabber and possibly Konverse installed already) can talk to MSN Messenger for you - however this is only a replacement for this single program, not a solution to replacing general Windows programs :( -Mary. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] ? on mandrake 8.2
On Sun, 2002-08-04 at 11:57, Jeff Waugh wrote: > > > > All that said - you might want to look into using Linux replacements for > > your windows software rather than trying to emulate windows. I think > > Gabber will talk MSN Messenger. > > GAIM is probably a better bet - Gabber relies on the jabber.org servers to > talk to MSN, and they generally don't work. GAIM does all the multiprotocol > stuff locally, and talks MSN, AOL, Yahoo, ICQ, etc. Yep. jabber.org seems to be almost permanently down but we have been using a jabber server for quick internal communication in our small business (www.gmc.net.au). It's been a bit fiddly to set up but once done you are almost guaranteed to get through on the clients (Gabber, JIM, etc.) to MSN, ICQ, Yahoo HTH. David -- David Guest GPG key ID BE79B742 @ keyserver.medicine.net.au Fingerprint: 2609 DB95 C040 5902 BA0C 4D3C F1F2 EA62 BE79 B742 signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
