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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. Meow! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Meow meow Matt Bruce meow meow Henrietta Pussycat meow meow Presidents of the United States of America meow Kitty?

  2. 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.

  3. Re:The real story is... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    OMG!! YOU have teh 172.0.0.1 as teh IP, JUST LYK MEE!!
    OMG!!

  4. 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?

  5. slashdot spelling by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    it's compatibility with an i, not compatability for crying out loud.
    english isn't even my first language and still i get the hives whenever i read the kind of spelling mistakes you slashdot folks insist on making:

    kernal,
    impliment,
    compatable,
    preferance,
    i ndependant,
    relatavists,
    rediculous,
    primative,
    definately,
    paramaters,
    experiancing,
    alturna te

    the list goes and on and on and on...

  6. Slashdot editors masterbate seperately by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Because they are not compatable.