running Linux at work with Windows apps

[Tom Buskey]

"Price, Erik" said:
>Of course, I never quite finished what I meant to say here
>(you're probably wondering why I brought up the Xserver in the
>first place ... "okay, that's nice to know").
>
>I meant to say that if I can access email from a Linux mail client
>and if I can get an Xserver up and running then I will be able to
>do the majority of my work from the Linux partition!  I would love
>that.  But I need to run certain GUI Java apps to do my job (and
>there are some that I will still need to boot into Windows for).

VMware works *very* well for the occasional windows app.  You need 
decent hardware and RAM behind it.  I run win2k on it and used it to 
sync my visor with a MeetingMaker calendar.

Also to sanity check my resume.  I write in Abiword and save a copy as
.doc because that's what everyone in the world that's hiring wants.  It
does very well saving .doc or .rtf files.  Reading them is a bit 
harder.  I think it's the best app for writing .doc out there except 
StarOffice/OpenOffice.  It's also faster & smaller then SO/OO.

if you're doing graphics (photoshop, visio, etc) I find the lag in 
VMware to be a bit of a problem.  YMMV.  VMware has a free trial 
available for testing.

Some people have also had success with Crossover Office.  As I 
understand, it won't work with every windows app.  Do they have a trial 
version?




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Tom Buskey