we used to run programs on WIN98SE, Win2000 and XP using for instance
QUICKTIME or being programmed in Pascal using graphics.
Some people are using powerpoint-presentations and WINWORD-Textfiles. Both
with problems since StarOffice 8 PP5 is not transferring everything
exactly.
So some of those people don't want to take Staroffice or whatever. If it
is
not working the way they did it, forget it.

What a pitty... And I have also seen people behave like that. They don't
want any change. They would only accept Staroffice if it was identical to
MSoffice, including trivial things such as the color of the interface....
Worse, if they see any bug in Staroffice they shout and scream, but they
accept bugs in MSOFFICE in a hourly basis... people are just afraid of
what's new. Be it with science, nuclear power, or simple things like
software... But back on topic,

I made a few experiments with wine, but had problems with charactersizes in
graphics, if it was running at all.

Weird. Wine runs Office pretty well. Maybe you should try a more recent
version of wine, or ask for help in the wine mailing list, or try helper
programs like winetools and helper websites like the Frank's corner.
Or, if you want it to be a piece of cake, you can buy Codeweavers's
Crossover Linux product. You probably have heard of them. They sell an
enhanced version of Wine (and they work actively on the Wine project and
contribute code back to them) and sell it to Linux and Mac OS, with support.
It is cheap and, IIRC, Microsoft Office 2000 is officially supported.


Is a virtual machine a better alternative to wine?


I have never tried, but I suspect a vm would be quite resource intensive. If
you can get Office working under wine, you could use that. If you need more
reliability, you could buy the Codeweavers's product.

--
Software is like sex: it is better when it is free.
  • Re: wine or VM Jorge Peixoto de Morais Neto

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