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Bridging Unix and Windows At NASA

Posted by Hemos on from the making-the-jump dept.

slashdotess writes "Information Week reports: "About a year ago, Patrick McCartney, a Johnson Center project manager, created a Linux desktop environment that could also run government-mandated Microsoft apps. This let his team of 30 engineers continue to program in a Unixlike environment and create Word documents and Outlook E-mail all on the same PC. This mixed-use scenario is slowly taking hold, encouraged by a growing number of applications for running Linux on PC desktops." Score another one for Linux on the Desktop."

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  1. Crossover plugins by tavarua · · Score: 5, Informative

    This article can be summed up in one sentence: The Johnson Center's IT team installed CrossOver Office from CodeWeavers Inc. on McCartney's PCs to give the engineers access to a variety of open-source and Microsoft Office apps.

    Bottom line: They didn't do anything special.

  2. Re:They kept the worst demons... by ender81b · · Score: 5, Informative

    Ouch. I've found this especially useful for office installs (link below) - basically it is a custom script that will not only install on first run but if some random asinine problem happens will look for a network share of office and grab the files necassary. even works if the people delete their entire office install:

    http://www.microsoft.com/technet/treeview/defaul t. asp?url=/technet/prodtechnol/office/office2000/dep loy/depopt/wiofc2k.asp