[ Thanks to Tom for
this link. ]
“CodeWeavers’ new CrossOver Office product delivers on the
long-standing goal of the Wine project : making it easy for anyone
to successfully install and run Windows software on Linux systems,
using a simple point-and-click process. It works so well, and the
Windows programs that it currently supports run so smoothly, that
it makes me feel slightly guilty — as though I’m somehow
cheating.“When I first defenestrated my desktop computer last May, I
fully expected to face some level of hardship on an ongoing basis.
And after nearly a year of using Linux exclusively as my desktop
OS, I have become quite accustomed to a variety of application
compromises on a daily basis. A sort of grin-and-bear-it
situation.“Even my extremely rare use of one or another of Microsoft’s
Office programs under Wine has been hampered by the
far-from-optimal Wine installation on my machine. I couldn’t print,
for example, from any Wined Office programs. PowerPoint had
illegible fonts and often crashed. Word also suffered from font
problems and misbehaved in various and sundry ways. Also, although
I had at least some success running Windows programs that were
lying around on my no-longer-booted Windows partition, I hadn’t a
clue how to install any new Windows software packages on my system
from a CDROM, or from a downloaded installation script…”