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SuSE Linux will run Microsoft Office
PizzaFace writes "SuSE Linux is developing a desktop Linux distribution that will allow Windows users to continue using (some of) their Windows applications, including Microsoft Office. The SuSE Linux Office Desktop will be available for $129 in January, and will include Acronis OS Selector for disk partitioning during installation and Codeweavers CrossOver Office for Windows API emulation."
Xilinx stuff will already work under wine.
See http://www.polybus.com/xilinx_on_linux.html
No it doesn't need Windows, otherwise there wouldn't be much point. The whole purpose of Wine and its derivatives is that you can run Windows applications without having the OS installed.
> Windows won't be killed since, AFAIK, it must be installed for Suse/Crossover to work.
No, it doesn't. Crossover Office works just fine without a real Windows installation.
I'm surprised this isn't on the /. main page already!
Using Modelsim for Linux now. You can't get the PE (Personal Edition) though. That's only on Windows.
While it doesn't have some of the features and templates that Visio does, Dia is a free (GPL) alternative.
Who said Freedom was Fair?
I think so. The point is, that SuSE is developing a new version of their distribution aimed at the corporate desktop. Crossover Office is just one special component, that'll differ from their normal distribution. There will be other stuff to make the transition from windows easier and probably no more server installations.
Second thing you miss is this. "Now for only $54.95"... CrossOver Office is not free. You can't just "download it seperately" for your normal SuSE distribution.
If you are running LinuxPPC, you could check out MacOnLinux.
Writing the equivalent of WINE for OS X would be a very very large undertaking.
Modelsim runs on Linux currently (as does synopsys design compiler and some back end layout tools). I reckon all EDA tools will soon run on linux, most of them already do anyway. The only problem with using PCs for serious EDA work is the limited amount of RAM you can install (4GB). We have a few linux boxes with 4GB of ram and even then, a single process is limited to 3GB - sometimes that's just not enough. For serious synthesis jobs we still have to run on a 64bit HP machine with 8GB of RAM.
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www.sourceforge.net/projects/haccess
Sourceforge site is a bit outof date, so mail me (at the sourceforge email address) if you want a copy/assistance
thank God the internet isn't a human right.
Who doesn't have an old Windows 9X disk sitting around.
Who can still find his or her old Windows 98se or ME disc? And who can find one that isn't scratched so bad it's unreadable?
For a home user Windows XP might as well just be $99.
It appears that unlike Microsoft's Windows XP Professional operating system, Microsoft's Windows XP Home Edition operating system will not work well with Intel's newest Pentium brand processor. The new CPU has a "hyperthreading" feature that lets two threads share one set of datapaths, for performance that lies somewhere between one CPU and two. It appears as two processors to the operating system, but XP Home supports only one logical processor, unlike XP Pro which supports two. XP Home also does not support a remote desktop similar to that of XP Pro or any X11 based system.
And if you are buying a PC and plan to use Windows anyway why not buy it with the machine and get the benefit of the OEM price.
With the OEM discount, the price of Windows XP Professional comes down to about $141 per seat (based on this 3-pack). If Walmart.com were to sell the $200 PCs with Windows XP installed, the price would rise to $340, and the Windows license would make up over 40 percent of the price of the computer.
Will I retire or break 10K?
Office X is written in Carbon, which is a compatability layer to allow Mac OS applications to work seamlessly with Mac OS X with minimal code tweaking. Sadly, Carbon applications cannot easily be ported to other platforms. According to this article, Microsoft's MacBU unit chose Carbon because it allowed them to port their code to Mac OS X in a year.
Even if Carbon allowed for easy cross-platform compatibility, it would be at the source code level and not the binary level. The best hope we would have to run Office X on Linux would be to couple Mac-on-Linux with a fast PPC system emulator for x86. Unfortunately the latter does not exist (to my knowledge).
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