[olug] Linux on the Desktop (BCC'd to others)

[Matthew G. Marsh]

On 3 Jan 2003, Quinn Coldiron wrote:

> All I can say is WOW.  This blows Crossover away.  I'll never buy that
> again if I have this!  Luckily my work paid for it :-)
>
> I do have to say Crossover Office is nice.  I needed to run MS Office at
> work and it does a good job.  I also have VMWare.  Nice too, but for a
> different reason.  Has anybody tried Win4Lin?

Yep. I now only use CXoffice and VMware. Win4Lin was essentially the old
UnixWare/SCO Merge program updated and ported. Required very specific
kernels and monster patches. When it worked it worked well. But WINE ate
it's lunch. And the older I get the lazier I get so now I just use CX...
And VMware for the real wierdo stuff.

Actually I originally bouht the CXOffice and Crossover bundle in order to
help support CodeWeavers. Then one day decided to actually try it. heh -
noce wtuff. Especially now that 1.3.1 will let me run Visio 2000 native...

> Quinn
>
>
> On Fri, 2003-01-03 at 19:34, CM Miller wrote:
> > Yup, I've just discovered this little gem known as
> > Mplayer to watch whatever on my Linux box.
> >
> > It is awesome.
> >
> > -Chris
> >
> >
> > --- Jonathan Warren <thechunk at cox.net> wrote:
> > > Mplayer is awesome.  It is stable fast and easy to
> > > use.  I have been using it for as long as I can
> > > rember.  If you have never tried it give it a
> > > chance.  The directions for compiling from source
> > > aren't too terrible.  Feel free to ask me any
> > > questions if you get stuck.
> > >
> > > -Jon W
> > >
> > > On Fri, Jan 03, 2003 at 12:51:26PM -0800, Eric Penne
> > > wrote:
> > > > I'm using mplayer0.90 rc2 with the qt6 codecs and
> > > libavifile
> > > >
> > > > my sources.list is:
> > > >
> > > > deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ unstable main
> > > non-free contrib
> > > > deb-src http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ unstable
> > > main non-free contrib
> > > > deb http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US
> > > unstable/non-US main contrib
> > > > non-free
> > > > deb-src http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US
> > > unstable/non-US main
> > > > contrib non-free
> > > > deb http://marillat.free.fr/ unstable main
> > > > deb http://shakti.ath.cx/debian/kde3.1 ./
> > > > deb
> > >
> > http://ibiblio.org/pub/linux/devel/lang/java/blackdown.org/debian/
> > > > unstable non-free
> > > >
> > > > http://marillat.free.fr has the latest mplayer
> > > debs.
> > > >
> > > > Eric
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > --- Quinn Coldiron <qcoldir at nmhs.org> wrote:
> > > > > > I also just recently found a
> > > > > > program that will play all media formats
> > > including the proprietary
> > > > > > Quicktime 6 and windows Media 9 and Real
> > > Player.  All they need to
> > > > > do
> > > > > > now is get a suitable installer for this and
> > > make it easy to embed
> > > > > the
> > > > > > player in a web browser.  BTW Debian Rocks!
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > > What program is that?  Now I'm using Crossover
> > > Pluggin from
> > > > > CodeWeavers,
> > > > > but I paid for that.
> > > > >
> > > > > Quinn
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > > --
> > > > >
> > > > > -----------------------------
> > > > > Quinn P. Coldiron
> > > > > Cerner Technical Coordinator
> > > > > Nebraska Methodist Hospital
> > > > > 402-354-1619
> > > > > qcoldir at nmhs.org
> > > > >
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> Nebraska Methodist Hospital
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