Windows emulator

Samuel Thibault samuel.thibault at ens-lyon.org
Thu Oct 13 11:33:20 UTC 2005


Aldo, le Thu 13 Oct 2005 13:00:33 +0200, a écrit :
> On Thu, Oct 13, 2005 at 11:19:39AM +0200, Samuel Thibault wrote:
> > CrossOver is more or less just a Wine version optimised for _some_
> > software like Ms Office.
> 
> It is supposed to be "more" than an implemented Wine since it is 
> non-free commercial payware.

Yes: it is more tuned and optimised. But that's just wine in the end,
with just the same accessibility issues.

> It's not so expensive but adding grub or lilo and installing a dualb
> boot with your W$ + Linux, is lees expensive, and less absurd imho!

Depends on the need: say I receive by mail a document that
OpenOffice.org can't open, I don't want to reboot my machine just to
open the document!

Regards,
Samuel




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