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On Tue, 16 Oct 2007 10:40:39 -0400 Matthew Gillen <[hidden email]> wrote: > I can't say it's pretty, but it's a hell of a lot less resource intensive > (esp. memory) than running a VMWare instance with a whole windows OS loaded > (also doesn't require a Windows OS license). Agreed 100%. The only reason I have Windows XP installed on my laptop is that my wife wanted to use RealPlayer, and only the Windows version could validate because it used some type of ActiveX component. > Crossover Office tries pretty hard to make it so you can set things up without > writing a lot of scripts yourself. It's certainly a nice packaging job, if > you don't mind coughing up the money. Yes. I have Crossover Office installed on my desktop specifically to run MS Office, but now since OpenOffice is much better, my needs have changed. -- Jerry Feldman <[hidden email]> Boston Linux and Unix user group http://www.blu.org PGP key id:C5061EA9 PGP Key fingerprint:053C 73EC 3AC1 5C44 3E14 9245 FB00 3ED5 C506 1EA9 _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [hidden email] http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
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