[fwlug] VMBOX

[Vern Ceder]

John,

I'm not sure exactly what you mean by VMBOX. As I see it, you have two 
(and a half ;) ) options for handling your needs:

1. VMWare (player for free, workstation for $$) can run Windows VM's 
very nicely - I (and quite a few others on this list) have been doing 
that for years. QEMU is free, and also works, but is slower.

2. Wine will run MSOffice on Linux pretty well, and while I don't 
remember the version, when I tried Minitab at school last year, it ran 
OK on Wine also.

2.5. You can handle almost all of MSOffice's files with OpenOffice - 
just today, I used OO to open a powerpoint file that was making 
PowerPoint itself crash. Word files with form fields are messy, and the 
spreadsheet graphing isn't as good, but everything else is pretty good. 
Then you would just need to use Wine or VMWare for things like Minitab...

FWIW,

Vern

John McKelvey wrote:
> Any opinions on this for running Windoz apps under linux? Other 
> suggestions for this?  Am about to give up and use Linux on my laptop, 
> but need to be able to edit edit/create Powerpoint slides, and some 
> other  MSOffice pgms, as well as Minitab V15. 
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> John McKelvey
> 
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