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Windows Compatability on the Linux Desktop

Posted by michael on from the avoiding-temptation dept.

davecb writes "O'Reilly has been kind enough to publish one of my how-to articles, Windows Compatability for the Linux Desktop, about dealing with that 'one last annoying program than only runs on Windows'. The answer? Run it under Linux and win4lin, and never venture onto the Windows desktop at all. Especially don't run programs via dual-boot, which tempts you to stay and use all those other wonderful programs like Outlook...

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  1. wow, a typo in the topic by latroM · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    No definitions found for "compatability", perhaps you mean: web1913: Compatibility wn: comparability compatibility foldoc: compatibility
    Now, mod me down if you want but it is quite serious when the topic has a typo.

  2. Slightly OT - What about ssh -X? by DoubleEdd · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Third page of the article at LinuxDevCenter.com - figure 6.
    http://www.linuxdevcenter.com/linux/2004/06/10 /gra phics/visio_5.gif

    Terminal window in the background. The author is using xhost along with some hairy ssh command line. Is there a good reason for this and not using ssh's built in X forwarding?