Have you tried Wine? What about VMWare and windows? Ive found that VMware helps a bunch when the client OS likes to crash alot. The base system will remain stable. I assume you never found a OSS verison of the software your needing, or that it doesnt interoperate with what others are using?
Zeke Yewdall wrote: >Unfortunately, there are too many specialized engineering software >packages that I use every day that can only operate under windows >(often they are even picky about the version of windows) for me to >consider Linux. If it was just web browsing, spreadsheets, word >processing, and the like, I'd get rid of windows in a heartbeat. I've >already dumped IE and outlook. > >I want Google or Mozilla to come out with an operating system..... > >On 10/26/05, Doug Foskey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >>But you must agree that it is moving from a boat that leaks like a sieve to a >>boat that needs an occasional bale?? >> I find now I get extremely frustrated at work where I must use the M$ >>systems: because I cannot multi task as easily as on my home system. (And I >>have occasionally had over 60 web pages open at once in Linux - try that on >>the other system!) >> >>regards Doug >> >>On Wednesday 26 October 2005 10:16, Rafal Szczesniak wrote: >> >> >>>On Wed, Oct 26, 2005 at 04:54:01PM +1000, Doug Foskey wrote: >>> >>> >>>>Good reason to go Linux..... >>>> >>>> >>>It doesn't really matter. If one of your addresses is publicly available >>>(either on a website or mailing list archives) it will be abused this >>>way sooner or later. I use Linux and FreeBSD all the time and it >>>happened to me too (several times). Naturally, using Windows mail >>>readers exposes you more due to impact the mail worms and viruses have >>>on internet these days, but "just using Linux" is not an ultimate solution. >>> >>> >>_______________________________________________ >>Biofuel mailing list >>Biofuel@sustainablelists.org >>http://sustainablelists.org/mailman/listinfo/biofuel_sustainablelists.org >> >>Biofuel at Journey to Forever: >>http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html >> >>Search the combined Biofuel and Biofuels-biz list archives (50,000 messages): >>http://www.mail-archive.com/biofuel@sustainablelists.org/ >> >> >> >> > >_______________________________________________ >Biofuel mailing list >Biofuel@sustainablelists.org >http://sustainablelists.org/mailman/listinfo/biofuel_sustainablelists.org > >Biofuel at Journey to Forever: >http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html > >Search the combined Biofuel and Biofuels-biz list archives (50,000 messages): >http://www.mail-archive.com/biofuel@sustainablelists.org/ > > > > _______________________________________________ Biofuel mailing list Biofuel@sustainablelists.org http://sustainablelists.org/mailman/listinfo/biofuel_sustainablelists.org Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Search the combined Biofuel and Biofuels-biz list archives (50,000 messages): http://www.mail-archive.com/biofuel@sustainablelists.org/
