Comments on: Technology Rants

By: Bruce Clarke

Bruce Clarke — Wed, 17 Nov 2010 08:06:07 +0000

In this house we run one of each distros…Mint Julia on a Dell Inspiron 1525,Mint Isadora on an eMachines E625 and linux mint KDE /XP on a HP desktop pc.(this one is so old I think it was here BEFORE the Pilgrims LOL

By: Bruce Clarke

Bruce Clarke — Wed, 17 Nov 2010 07:59:33 +0000

I do not run any virtual computers ,nor do I run windoze on my main computers .The poor nearly forgotten XP languishes in the office and rarely gets used, Hmm I wonder how long it has gone without being cleaned ,defragged ,and dusted.I wonder if it even works since we do 99.99% of our things on Mint.But the only time it is used is for Mediaface for making good quality DVD covers and labels too bad this is a proprietary program without support from Linux.Come to think about it that is the only thing we use the tower for LOL.It is however dual booting with Mint 9 KDE (default OS for it).

By: Greg Laden

Greg Laden — Sat, 17 Apr 2010 12:06:39 +0000

Applicatoins supported by Crossover:

* Microsoft Office 2007, 2003, XP, 2000 and 97
o Microsoft Word
o Microsoft Excel
o Microsoft PowerPoint
o Microsoft Outlook
o Microsoft Access *1
* Microsoft Internet Explorer 6
* Microsoft Project
* Adobe Photoshop
* Microsoft Visio
* Lotus Notes 5.0 and 6.5.1
* Quicken
* FrameMaker
* Various Web Browser Plugins
o QuickTime
o Shockwave Director
o Windows Media Player 6.4
* and more…

Here’s the Photoshop page:

http://www.codeweavers.com/compatibility/browse/name/?app_id=8

Crossover is a commercialzed version of wine. To make wine work, one has to fiddle. Crossover is a barrel of geeks you pay 40 or 70 bucks to do the fiddling in advance, and there is some value added (though at the moment I’m not sure what, you’d have to check the site: http://www.codeweavers.com/products/ )

By: Comrade PhysioProf

Comrade PhysioProf — Sat, 17 Apr 2010 11:53:00 +0000

I wish Adobe would make their fucking shit work on Linux.

By: Greg Laden

Greg Laden — Sat, 17 Apr 2010 11:50:49 +0000

CPP: Not exactly. It lets you create, in a “window” a virtual hardware world in which “Windows” (or some other operating system) can run. It will have full functionality once you teach it how to communicate with the available devices (some will be automatic, some will have to be tweaked) but it won’t necessarily interact just like some other program with other programs you have running. It’s a different computer. Or, to be more exact, it “thinks” it is a different computer. It is somewhat more conveniently interactive than if they were actual different computers.

Of course, “wine” is getting better and better all the time, so if the applications you need work under wine (and I recommend the paid version, Crossover) then that is more like having the actual software running.

By: Comrade PhysioProf

Comrade PhysioProf — Sat, 17 Apr 2010 11:24:50 +0000

This virtual doohickey dealio will let me run Windows applications natively on a Linux machine? Hmm…..

By: Julius

Julius — Sat, 17 Apr 2010 04:49:58 +0000

Hmm, I never managed to get into virtual desktops. I used Linux for a while around the early 2000s (KDE 1 and 2 based, mostly) and never got into the habit of using them. Then switched to Mac, and since they introduced it a couple of versions ago (10.5, was it?) have never used Spaces – in fact, when I read the term virtual desktops just now, I didn’t immediately remember that my Mac does in fact have that feature.

By: Greg Laden

Greg Laden — Sat, 17 Apr 2010 04:21:01 +0000

Wait, you run Linux IN the virtual box which is running in windows? You’re doing it backwards, dude! Run the GOOD operating system on the hardware, and the BAD operating system in the fake little box!

By: Tony P

Tony P — Sat, 17 Apr 2010 03:55:44 +0000

I still use WinXP Pro, but have VMWare 2 installed on it. So for example I have my Debian 5 install, Ubuntu, Chrome, and Win7 test installed in the VM.

By: MadScientist

MadScientist — Sat, 17 Apr 2010 02:01:49 +0000

Like Mal I run XP on VirtualBox. I’m forced to, thanks to horrible clients that I can’t afford to just shoo away. I haven’t made much use of the virtual desktops for the past 2 years though, but I can’t do without them when I need them.