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Why not Ubuntu plus Crossover Office?Why not Ubuntu plus Crossover Office?Posted Jul 15, 2005 6:19 UTC (Fri) by ssavitzky (guest, #2855)In reply to: The Xandros Business Desktop by vmole Parent article: The Xandros Business Desktop Actually I might, but your typical small-business owner probably wouldn't want to. I haven't actually tried installing Crossover Office, but if it's like most proprietary software for Linux it's probably packaged as an RPM. Results on Debian definitely not guaranteed. With Xandros it's a slam-dunk
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CrossOver installs easily under Debian Posted Jul 17, 2005 9:37 UTC (Sun) by hackerb9 (guest, #21928) [Link]
I've tried CrossOver on Debian and it works just fine. Installation is a breeze; just run the included installer. Since it was not packaged as an RPM (or a .deb), you have to use an included uninstaller (yuck) if you ever want to get rid of it. --B
Why not Ubuntu plus Crossover Office? Posted Jul 18, 2005 10:59 UTC (Mon) by csamuel (✭ supporter ✭, #2624) [Link] As a longtime user of Codeweavers Crossover Office (I started out when they released Plugin and wanted to help fund the Wine effort through their work) I can confirm that I am able to download Crossover Office as:
That plus the fact that their license says: This is a license for one user. The license is not necessarily for a specific user, or a specific computer, but it is for one person at a time. is a nice change in a world of product activation and DRM.. cheers,Chris
Why not Ubuntu plus Crossover Office? Posted Jul 18, 2005 15:01 UTC (Mon) by ssavitzky (guest, #2855) [Link] Sounds great! I'll have to try it sometime; I have enough Windows users in my house...
How does it do on tax software, specifically TaxCut?
Why not Ubuntu plus Crossover Office? Posted Jul 20, 2005 11:40 UTC (Wed) by csamuel (✭ supporter ✭, #2624) [Link] Being in Australia I've no idea I'm afraid..Chris
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