(unknown charset) Re[2]: Documentation and pointers

From: (unknown charset) [at]} <Wojtek>
Date: Sun, 17 Aug 2003 14:06:13 -0400 (EDT)

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Concerning Linux, I routinely run BB on Linux under VMWare, that is
full Windows running in a window under Linux. I know this is not exactly
the native Linux mode, but still it does work. I am doing so because
our main data analysis runs under Linux, and therefore Linux is
used throughout the department. On the other hand, we noticed that
native Linux "productivity tools" such as wordprocessors or presentation
graphics are buggy and not too much MS-compatible. No insult intended
to Linux fans, but Linux add-ons do not seem to be the highest quality.
Therefore we use original Microsoft Office to write reports or prepare
seminars. Microsoft Office somehow does not run natively under Linux.
(Is this not surprising? Unlike Ominc, Microsoft is a big company,
but for some reason they did not port Office to Linux. Perhaps we should
not be too surprised a small company did not do this, either.) In any
case, we installed VMware and Windows on our Linux boxes to run MS Office,
and we can run other Windows stuff including BlackBox as well.

Hope this info helps.

Wojtek Skulski skulski{([at]})nowhere.xy
On Sun, 17 Aug 2003, Ketmar wrote:

> Hello, René.
>
> RD> one I would like to bring out to all of you:porting BB to LINUX.
> RD> There was a kind of promise on that issue when BB was first released. As
> RD> a matter of fact, module Dialog exports CONST linux = 30... What has happen?.
> RD> Is anyone working on that?. Availability of BB under LINUX would be a really
> RD> big step.
> i think there will be no ports, at least in a reasonable time. OM is
> a small company and they will not do things that don;t promises any
> profit. They dropped Mac version and thay wan't make any *nix ports, i
> believe.

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