Interesting People mailing list archives
IP: more on : Office on Linux -- with no emulator
From: Dave Farber <dave () farber net>
Date: Mon, 01 Apr 2002 11:54:04 -0500
------ Forwarded Message From: Joe Touch <touch () ISI EDU> Date: Mon, 01 Apr 2002 08:49:04 -0800 To: farber () cis upenn edu Subject: Re: IP: : Office on Linux -- with no emulator Hi, Dave, Crossover uses Wine. Acronyms to the contrary, WINE *IS* an emulator, at least for non-recompiled apps (e.g., Office). See below, from their documentation (see **, added for emphasis). It may not run the app inside Win2K, but it *IS* running in an emulator. Presumably to catch the calls to the API without relinking :-)) Joe 1.1.2. Emulation versus Native Linking Wine is a UNIX implementation of the win32 libraries, written from scratch by hundreds of volunteer developers and released under an open source license. Anyone can download and read through the source code, and fix bugs that arise. The Wine community is full of richly talented programmers who have spent thousands of hours of personal time on improving Wine so that it works well with the win32 Applications Programming Interface (API), and keeps pace with new developments from Microsoft. Wine can run applications in two discrete ways: as pre-compiled Windows binaries, or as natively compiled X11 (X Window System) applications. The former method uses **emulation** to connect a Windows application to the Wine libraries. You can run your Windows application directly with the **emulator**, by installing through Wine or by simply copying the Windows executables onto your Linux system. The other way to run Windows applications with Wine requires that you have the source code for the application. Instead of compiling it with native Windows compilers, you can compile it with a native Linux compiler -- gcc for example -- and link in the Wine Libraries as you would with any other native UNIX application. These natively linked applications are referred to as Winelib applications. The Wine Users Guide will focus on running precompiled Windows applications using the Wine **emulator**. The Winelib Users Guide will cover Winelib applications. Dave Farber wrote:
------ Forwarded Message *From: *"David G. Cassidy" <david () turnerconsulting com> *Date: *Fri, 29 Mar 2002 17:42:06 -0500 *To: *dave () farber net *Subject: *IP: Office on Linux -- with no emulator Dave, For IP. Codeweavers are at http://www.codeweavers.com <http://www.codeweavers.com/> . I can't imagine that MS will sit idle while their core product is circumnavigated like this. Be interested in other IP-er's comments! Cheers, Dave CODEWEAVERS RUNS OFFICE WITHOUT WINDOWS Posted March 29, 2002 10:23 Pacific Time HOPING TO BREAK down one the biggest barriers to acceptance of Linux on the desktop, Codeweavers unveiled software that allows corporate users to run Microsoft Office and Lotus Notes without a Windows operating system. The product, called CrossOver Office, eliminates the need for a Windows operating systems license as well as a Windows emulator which, traditionally, have tended to weigh down the speed and performance of desktop applications. For the full story:
http://www.infoworld.com/articles/hn/xml/02/03/29/020329hncodeweavers.xml?0329fr pm
-- *David G. Cassidy _Turner Consulting Group _*Tel: (703) 817-1474 Cell: (202) 246-5689 david () turnerconsulting com http://www.turnerconsulting.com/ ------ End of Forwarded Message
------ End of Forwarded Message For archives see: http://www.interesting-people.org/archives/interesting-people/
Current thread:
- IP: more on : Office on Linux -- with no emulator Dave Farber (Apr 01)