Re: Wine and Linux termincal services

["Scott Van Singel" <svansingel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Bert,

  Thank you for your imput.
As far as MS office, I need to run Office 2k. Thanks to the Teacher Technology initative, I now have 180 laptops with Office 2k on them
and you know that some people will not be able to tell the difference between Office 97 and 2k when they save the programs.
I have already ran into some people that saved some work on their laptops then come to work (work we are running Office 97) and they are
having problems opening the files. The next thing I hear from them is "PUT Office 2k on my computer" (love it when they demand stuff
from me). Almost all the desktops here are running Windows NT 4.0 workstation.
There are many computers that are not working well because they are old. If I could somehow put them on a Terminal service ( I do not
want to use Citrix, it gets to expensive) and then run the MS products no them, then that would save me a lot of money and headaches for
now.
So, if anyone can get a old computer to run Linux from a server then wine on that for the MS applications, I would love to work with you
to get this project up and running here at Sturgis Schools.
Maybe, if we can get this working it would be a great presentation for KLUG.

Thank you

Bert Obbink wrote:

> Scott Van Singel wrote:
>
> > OK,
> >
> > 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.
>
> >
> > 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. 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.
>
> Bert.

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Scott Van Singel
Technology Director
Sturgis Public Schools
216 Vinewood
Sturgis, MI. 49091
Office: (616) 659-1512
Fax: (616) 651-1571
Email: svansingel@sturgis.k12.mi.us