Date: Sat, 28 Apr 2007 16:32:22 +0800 From: Zhang Weiwu <zhangweiwu@realss.com> To: Garrett Cooper <youshi10@u.washington.edu> Cc: james thompson <jthompson203@tampabay.rr.com>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org, JamesThompson65@yahoo.com Subject: Re: Is FreeBSD simple enough for Novices, Will FreeBSD accept Office 98 + Publisher? Message-ID: <1177749142.28603.50.camel@joe.realss.com> In-Reply-To: <4632F094.4090408@u.washington.edu> References: <4632AF6B.3020500@tampabay.rr.com> <1177741823.28603.24.camel@joe.realss.com> <1177742342.28603.30.camel@joe.realss.com> <4632F094.4090408@u.washington.edu>
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On Fri, 2007-04-27 at 23:58 -0700, Garrett Cooper wrote: > As for running Windows binaries of Office on Wine / Crossoffice, this is > tricky at best.. particularly with newer MS products (what with the Did you really try to run Windows applications on Crossoffice that crossoffice claimed to be supported? Frankly it's so much easier on wine. If something doesn't work on wine, after some search I probably can fix it; if something doesn't work on crossoffice I simply don't try spend one more minute searching for a solution, because generally that means there is no solution. Install some software on crossoffice is breezy: you follow a wizard and later it's working. That's only from my limited experience because I really didn't try a lot of windows software but I had this feeling. That's why when the original poster ask the question I even didn't mention the word "wine", I did this intentionally so that I can save him time searching for solutions to fix wine or get disappointed by it. To techies like us we have 3 solutions: 1) use OOS replacement; 2) dig into wine and google around for a solution and 3) try buy crossoffice, for NOVINCE user there are only two choices: 1) use OOS replacement; 2) buy crossoffice if the software is supported. I simply give user-aspect opinion from me.
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