[K12OSN] Can I use K12LTSP, WINE, & WineTools

Sonny To son.c.to at gmail.com
Thu Sep 28 03:56:34 UTC 2006


Vmware server is free. I use it just to run skype/voipstunt because
skype for linux does not work well.

On 9/28/06, James P. Kinney III <jkinney at localnetsolutions.com> wrote:
> On Thu, 2006-09-28 at 11:35 +0800, Sonny To wrote:
> > ever though of running legacy windows apps in vmware? its free
>
> Vmware is not free. They do have a vmware player that is free, but
> licensing restriction on Microsoft Windows makes it impossible to
> provide a vmware player with any version of windows.
>
> Plus VMware is a serious resource load.
>
> In general, if an app will run on a Linux desktop, it will run on a thin
> client. For the most part, the thin client is not much more than a
> screen, keyboard, mouse, and network card. All the app code is running
> on the server and the display bits are sent down the wire.
>
> The really nice thing is it's easy to test. Hang one thin client of the
> existing server and see if the wine apps will run.
> >
> > On 9/28/06, Oliver Rombaoa <oliver.rombaoa at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > i was thinking of using the K12LTSP since it is easy to install, but my
> > > problem is, we have in-house apps developed in VB6 and we are not ready yet
> > > to reprogram them using other language. i used Fedora core 5 and i encounter
> > > no problem at all when running our apps using Wine and WineTools but i don't
> > > think that this will be the case also if i use LTSP. i just want to know if
> > > you have some experience using LTSP or K12LTSP plus Wine and WineTools, did
> > > they run smoothly? if it is not too much to ask, kindly reply to me because
> > > i really can't find anything in the net that suggests that i can use them
> > > together (Wine, WineTools & k12ltsp), thank you
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