[H-GEN] applixware

Bradley Marshall bradm at humbug.org.au
Tue Jun 2 02:03:06 EDT 1998


On Tue, 2 Jun 1998, Raymond Smith wrote:
> On Tue, 2 Jun 1998, Chris Ryan wrote:
> > Potentially Wine, et al might provide the alternative to having to
> > reboot to Windows.
> Now this is closer to the ideal (BTW, I think Sun have a product like
> Wine for Solaris). Even better would be to get apps for UN*X systems. 

The product that Solaris has is, I believe SoftWindows - which I posted a
url of a petition to get it ported to Linux a little while back
(http://www.mr-hankey.w1.net/advocate/ for those of you who weren't
following)

> Ease of use and lack of applications are the two bugbears of UN*X. We UN*X
> supporters should at least attempt to address the criticism.

Definately.  I'm attempting to address this in my talk (which I should
probably present at either the next meeting, or the meeting after) about
Linux in a Commercial Environment.. assuming I can get my pc up and
running by then. :)

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