Re: [tlug] Using Linux for the desktop

[Charles Muller <acmuller@example.com>]

Matt Gushee wrote:

> On Sun, Jul 13, 2003 at 12:38:48AM +0900, Thomas Piekenbrock wrote:
> > If you need to run M$ office under Linux, there is a commercial product
> > "Crossover" from Codeweavers,
> 
> Good product. I finally broke down and bought Crossover Office when I
> realized I was not going to be able to give up MS Office, but I really
> wanted to stop dual-booting. It runs Word 2000 quite well; it behaves
> just about the same as under Windows, except that occasionally the input
> devices get locked into some weird mode where you can't type or select
> text properly.

For most people this should not be a problem, but it doesn't seem to
work yet with East Asian versions of MS Office, at least it didn't when
I tried it about six months ago.

Chuck

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