Running Windows apps on OpenSolaris
Windows rules the desktop because of its apps, and I'm often annoyed at the ridiculous pervasiveness of things like MS Office. (They literally teach use of MS Office in my daughter's high school as a computer class. Sigh.) But that's the world we live in. If you are required by convention or office protocol to use MS Office (yes, I know there are open source alternatives) or any other MS app and you want to work in an OpenSolaris environment, looks like that is getting easier to achieve. Check out this nice blog entry about using Bordeaux and Wine to do that.
Just mucking around with Wine over the past couple of weeks for the first time - must say it's very easy to set up and the results are most impressive. Definitely a viable alternative to full desktop virtualisation, esp with regard to running on older hardware and the cost of Windows licenses.
Posted by Dave on August 04, 2009 at 04:14 PM MDT #
Thanks for the link :)
That's a pet peeve of mine that technical colleges, universities and schools teach MS Office as a unit of study. Even if they did a brief overview of all office suites and then focused on MSO I could understand. It is amazing how many people think that MSO is the definition of an office suite :-|
Posted by che kristo on August 04, 2009 at 11:28 PM MDT #