Re: Wine and Linux termincal services

[Adam Williams <awilliam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

>>I have a question or a challenge for you guys.
>>Does anyone know if there is a way to run Linux Terminal service  and
>>Wine on systems.
>I am working on a project just to do that. I think we both trying to 
>get the same thing working. I have read the reply from Adam Tauno
>Williams. He has already running this combination. I have recently
>installed the latest version of wine. My results are best when the
>server running wine has a native m$ partition. Depending on the kind of
>programs you are running under wine the results are quite different.

I've read that having native versions of mfc42 and msvcrt can make quite
a diffrence.  Even if you don't have a native paritition (I don't) you
can still install native DLLs in your virtual c:\windows

>>Here is what I am looking at. I have a lot of computers with old parts
>>and do not run well with the high demand for system requirements that
>>Windows applications take. If I could run Linux on the machines with
>>Linux Terminal Services then run Wine so the Windows applications can be
>>running, the I would consider this for some of our older labs.
>>I need to run some of the programs written for Windows for the teachers and some students. What I would like to do is run Office
>>on the terminals.
>What Office do you mean? M$ offices are not interchangeable. You can't run O2000
>on W95.

I would be stunned if you could get any recent version of M$-Office to
run under wine,  reports I have heard have not been good.

>If you use staroffice you don't need wine. I am trying to get
>fooks to start using staroffice. M$ is already advertising with Office
>XP so why start with O2000 I argue?
>OpenOffice like Kword are missing to much possibilities. It has no ë 
>or ï et cetera which are fital for the languages spoken here.

You might want to look at:
Applixware (commercial, but by many considered better than Star Office)
CLIX
Siag Office

KOffice and Star Office tend to eclipse other projects.  I'm not 
endorseing them,  but it doesn't hurt to look (and you can even run 
Applixware on some of that spare mainframe power you have lying about :)

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