NewsForge: CrossOver Office 3.0.1 Review

“What do you do when you need to use Windows programs in
GNU/Linux? You could look for free software alternatives to those
programs, but in some cases–such as with Macromedia’s proprietary
Flash MX Web development environment–there is no suitable
replacement in GNU/Linux. That’s where CrossOver Office by
CodeWeavers comes in; using this software you can run a number of
Windows programs in GNU/Linux without any loss in performance or
stability. Too bad it’s under a restrictive proprietary
license.

“Certainly if you’ve just switched to GNU/Linux, your first
option should be to look for a free software program that will do
what you need. Probably the most requested applications I’ve seen
on message forums are Macromedia’s Dreamweaver and Flash
development tools, which don’t yet have free software clones or
native GNU/Linux editions as of this writing. You can hand-code
your HTML and CSS files through editors like Bluefish and Quanta+,
but they don’t offer the WYSIWYG mode that Dreamweaver is known
for, and there’s simply no replacement for Macromedia Flash if you
want to create rich content for the Web. So you either go without,
or you find a way to run these programs on your new operating
system through a virtual machine, emulator, or something
similar.

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