On Sat, 2003-04-05 at 04:52, David Krider wrote: > I've used VMware now for a few years for maintaining "compatibility" > with the rest of the world at work (and doing Windows development). I > had bought VMware Express for home use, but that's so out of date, I > don't dare even try to install it on Shrike. (Unless someone can tell me > that it still will work with the new kernel.) > > I was thinking about buying Win4Lin, for the sole purpose of being able > to run Publisher (which I owned before I went Linux full-time) for my > wife. This is the one app that I don't have an equivalent for under > Linux. Does anyone run Win4Lin here, and, if so, what are your thoughts? > > I guess the bottom line is just that I need a "publisher-like" app for > Linux. Barring a native one, what about something running under Wine? I > tried Print Shop, and it sucked hard even under Windows. (And I was > hoping to be able to use its clipart under Linux, but it's all packed in > big, proprietary data files. Jerks. I used their money-back guarantee.) > > I'd really like the ability to run a Windows program seamlessly, like > with Crossover, but Codeweavers doesn't even mention Publisher in any of > their documentation, working or not. Has anyone gotten it working with > their product? > I use Win4Lin on my RH 8.0 system. Netraverse hasn't released a kernel for RHL 9 yet, so I'm waiting to upgrade that system. Hopefully they'll have something in a couple of weeks. When I checked their mailing list earlier this week, one of their guys was still trying to download the iso's from RHN. I've got the VMWare 4 beta running on my RHL 9 system. You would most likely need to upgrade (not sure if 3.2 will work or not, but if you buy now you'll get 4 for free). For a work-alike, you might check out Scribus, which aims to be a PageMaker replacement: http://web2.altmuehlnet.de/fschmid/ I'd also recommend looking at OpenOffice.org as a possible replacement. It's not purpose-built for DTP, but it's much more useful than, say, MS Word in that department. > Thoughts? > dk > -- Michael Knepher <limbo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
