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I found the following games work very well:

o Half-Life (Single Player)
o Warcraft II BNE
o Fallout / Fallout2
o Unreal Gold (some hacking required)
o SimEarth
o Hexen II

Installing is often a problem. Sometimes you need to boot to windows, intstall, then copy the whole tree over to linux. Often it is useful to start X in 640x480 mode as well.

My experiences are with vanilla CVS Wine. TransGaming won't accept my debit card, so I haven't subscribed (would like to though).

If only Serious Sam I and II would get supported, my life would be complete! Or maybe
icculus will finish his port someday.

Also, you can now play Hexen II using Anvil of Thyrion which is a native linux client.

You can play spider solitare through the free version of codeweavers wine. Copy the spider directory in windows to your home directory and create a link "wine $HOME/spider/spider.exe" and you can play it quite nicely. I have a nice link to on my kde panel. Finding a good spider icon was the hardest part. It is quite fast, though I have an 850Mhz Athlon so results may vary. I've used it to play around with pinball & freecell (gnome freecell is much better!). I also use it for the windows version of AIM, my kids use all of the features and have to have that version. Me, I use gaim!

Why not?

Didn't these guys fix that for you?

One: Mac OS X is the only UNIX that has Microsoft Office available to it, period. If you want to be a hermit and be unable to send your scientific reports to PC users since you have inappropriate software, then Linux is for you.

Firstly, your WRONG. CrossOverOffice provides MS Office for Linux users. Also, Wine allows one to run MS products on Linux. Next time, do a little bit of research before making outlandish claims. Secondly, even if you were right, who cares? OpenOffice and StarOffice can save files as MS Word documents, thus Linux users can share their files with PC users, and vica versa. Again, do your research.

Two: Mac OS X may not be the sleekest girl on the block, but her OS underpinnings have been around as long, if not longer, than Linux. Under those "glassy effects" (which are optimized for speed in the 10.2 update) is a CLI and OS kernel that soars.

Glassy effects optimized for speed? Maybe the updated version is faster than the old one, but its still a LOT of bloat, and one would be better off without it. The excellent, minimalist underpinnings of MacOSX are slowed down by its bloated filled-with-useless-features GUI.

Nothing is useless in OS X.

Yea, whatever. Exactly what purpose do the animations serve? What about the Aqua glassy effects? Or the icon zooming? Transparency? All useless, or of very minimal use. All designed for the sole purpose of having good looking screen-shots.

These scientists just believe that using your OS is more productive than having to play with the damn thing each time someone in the Linux dev group sneezes and makes Yet Another Attempt At a Stable Kernel.

When exactly has an unstable Kernel came out under the stable branch of the kernel? I don't recall it happening.

Ever heard of Debian? Makes updating to the latest stable release of packages rather easy. As for updating the kernel, that can also be done rather nicely in Debian, without even having down-time.

Your "quick answers" still do not deal with the fact that MacOSX is bloat-ware. The new finder in it is crap, for example.

One would be better off running a WM in Darwin if one uses Mac hardware, or installing Debian.

those researchers probably dont know that napster got shut down.

Napster is dead; long live WinMX, the successor to Napster for Windows and x86 Linux.

Assuming you don't want to go through the trouble of dedicating a computer to receiving the stream and re-encoding the audio to another format, it would probably just be easiest to use Media Player. Use CodeWeavers CrossOver Office to run Media Player on Linux.

25 hours for multiple attempts to get Windows installed. About two hours to get about 7 Gig worth of Suse Linux installed(entire professional version, 7 CDs). Windows had me hunting down drivers all over the place. Problems with the adaptec raid card, problems with the monitor drivers. Problems, problems, problems. Partition problems, more problems. 25 hours later from 5 am to 6 am next day without break, Windows finally working (but still has problems with a separate windows partition for swap), and it takes under two hours to install SuSE Linux, all 7 CDs of the professional version, dual boot to the windows system. I get openoffice.org, staroffice, multiple browsers, editors, compilers, servers, im chat clients, games, more word processors, email clients, email servers, apache, MySQL and PostgreSQL databases, translators, calculators, da Gimp, Acrobat file creation possibilities, VNC server and client, backup programs that work, anti-popup browsers that work, video tools, audio/multimedia tools, and so much more. All included with the OS.

I get a rock stable system, uptimes measured in months (except for security patches (which reset my uptime for some reason even though I don't reboot), my web server has been up for six months, since first install, and I know next to nothing about web serving).

My printer was automatically detected and ready to print thanks to cups (and it is an obscure, discontinued Minolta printer), sound works, video works, everything works. Windows, driver insanity. Had to hunt down video driver (download from manufacturer site from different computer), had to figure out why it was running in emulation mode (problem with the adaptec card, took multiple installs of driver downloaded from adaptec site), had to dig out motherboard drivers, printer drivers, CDRW drivers, modem drivers, lan drivers, sound card drivers, and more. Had to download updated versions of acrobat, winzip, WinSCP, Putty, and about a dozen other programs. Had to further install Windows versions of word processing, spreadsheet, database, presentation apps, and email client/virus detection software (NOT, only use Linux for email, hence don't need email client or virus detection software).

Over a thousand dollars worth of Windows software, and about a hundred worth of Linux software, and I can legally run it on more than one computer.

The only thing still holding me to Windows is Quickbooks Pro (now solved since I've discovered MyBooks by Appgen, and now that Crossover Office supports Quickbooks, and Quickbooks Pro will immediately follow), Dreamweaver (Quanta and Bluefish are not quite there yet), and Corel Draw. That's it. That's what I need to ditch MS for good, and never look back.

Crossover Office: $54.95

Total: $114.90

--or--

GNU Cash: $0.00

Total: FREE!

Oh so interesting topic - yet so many broken links! Heellllppp!!

Codeweavers Press Release

Don't know about the rest though.

CodeWeavers.com

"Use the Preview Button! Check those URLs! Don't forget the http://!"

Maybe you should ask Code Weavers to support Quicken in their CrossOver Office package.

Get CrossOver Plugin (link is to free nagware download)! It will cost you $25 if you want to get rid of the reminders to buy the program, but lets you play Quicktime, Windows Media Player, etc. and is really easy to use.

If anyone wants it bad and has US$24.95 to spare, support Linux software developer and invest in CodeWeavers plugin. Full Flash and Shockwave support (among other things. ie. Quicktime, MS Mediaplayer, etc.)

Come on shell out the $25 and get crossover-plugin ... That is how I watched the Two Towers Trailer.

The trick to having your mom run Linux is to maintain her machine yourself. Of course, it depends on what your mom wants to run. My family isn't really big on the popular computer games, so CrossOver covers almost all of our Windows needs anyway. YRMV.

Unlike today, you mean, where Linux can't run any Windows software anyway. (if you want to share files with MS Office users the answer is Open Office, not Wine)

Now, this doesn't mean Wine is the kind of answer Lindows likes to present itself. And I always prefer native Linux applications. But Wine does present an occasional choice.

I'm in a very similar situation. At work I use Linux on my workstation--one of the few. We use Outlook pretty extensively, and so far Codeweavers Office works pretty well. It's around $50, and you can install Word, Outlook, Excel, and Internet Explorer, if you so desire, which is slightly flakier than normal with the plugin. Our Exchange servers are still running NT 4.0, which prevents me from trying Evolution.

Anyway, here's the link.

...how about Trillian? Yeah, I know it's not open-source, and it's for Win32 only (although one of co-workers uses it with the Crossover plug-in, and it works fine). It's still an outstanding piece of software, that allows these GlobalHyperMegaCorps to play their games, and still give us the functionality we users crave.

We use the revision control built into Word and other things so please don't offer Abiword, StarOffice, OpenOffice or KWord as alternatives

Ok, I suggest Crossover Office then. :)

It's good stuff, runs Word flawlessly. (yes, flawlessly.)

I know what Lindows is about, but if an outsider were reading the phrase:

"High on the list of headaches is incompatibilities with files created with Microsoft products like Word. Small software makers like Lindows are trying to help desktop users bridge that divide,"

what are they going to think?

The author talks about "incompatabilities with files created with Microsoft products like Word" - what's the incompatability? It's between Word, and... things that AREN'T Word. So he's referring to other office suites here. Then, carrying with this implication of other office suites, he says that Lindows is trying to "bridge that divide." Yes, "emulation"* does technically fit into his description, but he certainly doesn't lead the reader in that direction. He's very vague, so to the outsider, I believe it would appear that Lindows is doing some kind of file type conversion (something usually done by competing office suites), not allowing for MS Office to run "natively"* which is what they're really doing.

* yeah, yeah, I know it's not REALLY emulation, it's a seperate Win32 implementation, and the Office binaries aren't running truly natively, but cut me some slack - they're good enough for the terms of this discussion.

Also, if he wants to talk about options open to people who need Office compatability, you'd think he could bother to mention CodeWeavers, whose CrossOver Office app allows Linux users to run Word, Excel, Powerpoint, etc, all flawlessly in Linux - not down the road, or maybe later, like Lindows, but NOW. CO-Office is no small potatoes project, and I find it hard to believe he could have missed it in a serious search for Office options in Linux. CodeWeavers is certainly more viable than Lindows in this respect.

As I said, I'm not implying any malice on his part towards Linux, and I certainly don't think my criticisms count as "flaming" the author, but I still think he was very unclear (and in other parts just plain incorrect) about his descriptions of the options open to desktop Linux users.

So where's the linux version [of KaZaA]?

Does KaZaA or WinMX work in Wine or ReWind? I looked for "Kazaa" in the Wine application database, and I found that kazaalite runs quite well if you use MS DLLs. So does WinMX.

So where's the linux version [of KaZaA]?

Does KaZaA or WinMX work in Wine or ReWind? I looked for "Kazaa" in the Wine application database, and I found that kazaalite runs quite well if you use MS DLLs. So does WinMX.

What about xanim, CrossOver for viewers?

How about Quicktime 4 Linux/Cinelerra, OpenQuicktime, FFMPEG?

Of course you can stream Quicktime (yes virginia, even MPEG4) from Linux as well, using the open-source Darwin Streaming Server.

Is that enough? What more do you want?

Winehq is indeed a place to find obvious whining about undocumented api's. One link was here. Another is here.

Besides that, this reminds me there are indeed numbers of books documenting some of the previously undocumented API's, written by developers outside microsoft who have figured some of them out.

Install Codeweavers Wine.

Worked very smooth for me, if you follow the two hints.

Bye egghat.

Hey! It appears to work fine with CodeWeaver's CrossOver Plugin for Linux.

I just installed and ran it.

Yeah, progress is being made on SirCam :).

Might be worth a try. I use Mandrake Linux at work now, and I can do pretty much anything with it that Windows users can. The only frustrating thing is the lack of good browser plugins (yes, there is Codeweavers but it tends to be rather slow and I want it native.)

Ciryon

I recently purchased Crossover Office from Codeweavers...the crossover app allows you to install any windows app. Quicken works quite nicely with the tweaked wine codeweavers has put together :) (I was even able to download my account activity from my Bank's homepage, and import it in)

Does Linux support Windows yet?

Using the WINE binary compatibility layer, an x86-based GNU/Linux system running an X11 server can run many applications designed for Microsoft Windows.

As far as multimedia goes, it might be worth shelling out for the crossover plugin to allow quicktime/Media Player to work. It's only $24.95 per seat and they might even give a discount on bulk orders.

"Your biggest problems will come when everyone and their dog wants to install their personal stuff (screensavers, wallpaper, P2P apps, etc...) on their new Linux machines, then get mad when you tell them it won't work."

Screensavers? Have you SEEN the latest full Gnome install? I could spend an hour browsing through the stock screen savers! As for wallpaper, that's cross platform. A jpeg is a jpeg is a jpeg. P2P apps would be a problem if it wasn't for wine and people like Frank, who've figured it out for you. Closed formats are really the only thing that Microsoft apps can read that Linux apps can't. Even that barrier is crumbling.

If you want to retain compatibility, you could try CrossOver Office from Code Weavers?. It's expensive, but an option.

If you want to retain compatibility, you could try CrossOver Office from Code Weavers?. It's expensive, but an option.

It's got to be downloaded somehow, right? Er, moron?

They can help. It might be emulation, but on hardware less than three years old, it really doesn't matter.

I feel dirty for doing it, but I use the crossover plugin to view quicktime movies (as well as windows media crap). In my experience, it has worked extremely well, and the installation is a snap!

When a standard is developed for Linux that is 100% compatible with m$ office, then I will make the switch. I am so tired of trying so called "fully compatible" office suites only to find documents developed in m$ word look horrible.

Don't get me wrong, I love Linux. But until there is a truly 100% compatible office suite available, it's m$ office for me.

Fortunately, crossover office would allow me to use m$ office in my Linux environment. But why would my company shell out $50.00 when I am the only one using Linux?

Standards, then competition. The problem with open source/free software today is everyone is working on an individual basis, rather than working together to reach the same goal. In the movie, "Bugs Life", they realized there were more ants (us) than grasshoppers (M$), and made them their slaves. If we banded together, we could blow M$ off the map!

ltsp.org
k12 ltsp

the k12 set up has a really easy install, complete with redhat 7.2

check out qvwm (windows style window manager) and codeweavers (Realplayer, Quicktime, etc. plugins for linux browsers)

It may be hard to get all the windows games you want but there are some that ive seen work. Go to linuxGames.com for info on setting up games with linux. I know they have a tutorial for getting Starvraft working with wine.

If you need Microsoft Office, I would suggest trying the CodeWeaver Office. I have Redhat 7.2 with Gnome 1.4 running on my Dell Latitude, and Office 2000 works great using CodeWeavers. It isn't free, but it's well worth the price.

... and CodeWeavers has some software that can fill in some of the gaps. Granted, it's proprietary software, but it's probably one hell of a lot cheaper than the alternative...

I use Windows because paint shop pro rox0rs!

Hancom Office costs $59.95, cannot export to Word .doc format, cannot do fonts anti aliasing, and works only with standard (RedHat, SuSE, Mandrake) Linux distributions.

On the other side - CrossOver Office costs $54.95, and it's running your own copy of Office 97 & 2000 (Word, Excel, Powerpoint, even Outlook and Explorer!), does fonts anti-aliasing, runs on all Linux distributions, reads/writes .doc formats perfectly, and your money supports the biggest code contributions to WineHQ tree.

Now - could someone explain to me why would I need to buy Hancom Office?

runs fine for me, install and all, take a look here. this gives you all the info you need to run it. also, the same method works for kazaa which i also used before i found kazaa lite. good luck, should run fine, but has a few small issues. if you end up with really tiny fonts on the search tab, change your .wine/config line in the font section called resolution to something above 105 and it should be fine. only other problem i've run into is that the tooltips for searches/downloads don't display the normal info, they instead only say "test". well, enough rambling, heres the url:
Wine AppDB page for Kazaalite

just telling you, if you want info about over 150+ games and how they work with linux, check out:

Code Weaver's wine

just look on the left for "app database" and your set.

5 things: Word,
Excel,
Powerpoint,
IE,
Photoshop

well crossover office from codeweavers cuts your list down to pretty much two things.
and you seriously want to use IE...can you say "fight clicking the popups"?...and it also runs under wine if you want to have the hassle of it crashing all the time
Now I do?t know about photoshop but gimp/ImageMagick do a good job for me.

so there, if you want to use all that, you can (just the question whether you'd really want to)

You can find tested and supported applications here:

http://appdb.codeweavers.com/

A great chance to try out Internet Explorer under Linux, just for giggles. Works like a charm. Tee-hee

Ah, but have you seen this picture?

Anyone know if Anti-aliasing is supported with the cross-over plugin?

According to CodeWeavers plug-in change log, they added truetype anti-aliasing support in 1.1.0. I've tried the demo version so far and the fonts are not anti-aliased in my system, though maybe the demo has that disabled (doubtful) or you need to do some tweaking to enable it (probably).
(And yes, my X server does support Xrender.)