Comments on: A little wine with your Linux?

By: Andrew

Andrew — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 08:11:25 +0000

clinteas: Kewl

By: clinteas

clinteas — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 02:53:52 +0000

I am running XP in a virtual machine through virtualbox on Ubuntu Linux,doesnt faze me if wine can run something or not,because its just your normal XP running,and it does Sim City or anything else,and of course Office XP 2007…

By: Kevin H

Kevin H — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 23:27:11 +0000

it’s true, there are general formats, but there is that issue of the professorial inertia. I could probably get away with writing to an endnote compatible format so that he could open it, but trying to force him to export in a particular format will probably lead to grumbling, so native endnote reading is probably needed….We use Linux for all of our data analysis, but XP for stimulus presentation and office stuff.I’ll give the newest versions of wine+endnote a try and report back…

By: David Rinck

David Rinck — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 22:31:40 +0000

For those wanting to try out Linux, check out Wubi. It comes packaged with Ubuntu. You simply install Ubuntu like you would any application (albeit a 20 gig application). You can choose Windows or Ubuntu when you reboot.

By: Greg Laden

Greg Laden — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 21:37:31 +0000

Kevin, don’t take my word for it! The current version of endnote may well work now with crosstalk. My experimentation was a couple of years ago and I have not tested it.Also, sharing refs with your advisor does not require the same software at all. All software packages worth a damn in ref management export to a small number of identical formats.Finally, your advisor obviously needs to change to Linux.

By: Kevin H

Kevin H — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 21:03:20 +0000

thanks for the update. I only have access to the most recent version of Endnote, and I it, or atleast a fully read/write compatible alternative so I can share refs with my advisor. Oh well, looks like I’ll continue dual booting for awhile. Thanks for the reply.

By: Greg Laden

Greg Laden — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 20:14:17 +0000

Crossover is the way to go if you want to use Wine and are not a total *nix geekoid.Keven: My reason forusing Wine to begin with was to use Endnote and Word. It worked great. You can’t use the most current versions, but you can us not too old versions.But eventually I gave up on the Endnote and I use a different system now.

By: Barry

Barry — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 19:19:47 +0000

I use Wine for Lotus Notes and Palm Desktop. Never had much luck with Office: I’ve been tempted to use CrossOver to help, but Open Office is making it decreasingly important.

By: Kevin H

Kevin H — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 19:00:19 +0000

Thanks for bringing this to my attention. How’s your experience with Endnote and wine? do you use Endnote X, and can you get cite-while-you-write to work? If you can, can you only get it working with MS Office also through wine, or will openoffice.org work seamlessly as well.Endnote compatibility is pretty much the biggest thing keeping me from using Linux everywhere.

By: JanieBelle

JanieBelle — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 16:48:09 +0000

I ditched MS Office last year for Open Office.I am so much happier.(Open source iz da bomb. I just have to get up the nerve to switch to Linux…)