Re: [seul-edu] wine testing efforts

[Harry McGregor <micros@azstarnet.com>]

All of the Edmark software can be worked around, by running it as a
window, and having the kids windowshade between areas.  This has worked
for the past 3-4 years, though I have not looked in to the exact wine
issues that cause it.

Also if you run full screen, depending on your window manager, you can
use alt-tab to force a redraw of the screen.

		Harry

On Tue, 21 May 2002, Matt Drew
wrote:

> One of the major things I've run across in the Red Hat pilot is that
> most of the schools would really like to keep running most of the
> educational software they have.  If they are interested in moving to
> Linux, right now this means Wine (with a couple of exceptions).
>
> Here are some preliminary Wine testing results from different sites here
> in North Carolina.  Test platform was RHL 7.3, updated with the 0512
> build of of the basic Wine (obtained from http://www.linux-easy.com/daily/).
>
> If anyone has tried any similar applications or has done some serious
> testing, I'd love to hear about it.
>
> We should probably database-ize this at some point. :)
>
> Note that the commercial Codeweavers Crossover product
> (www.codeweavers.com) is known to handle Office much better than the
> basic Wine.
>
> *****
>
> Microsoft Office 2000:  Partially functional
>
> Office 2000 installs fairly well.  DO NOT install the Office Assistant
> -- he will crash Wine everytime he starts up.  If you don't have an
> Everything Red Hat Linux install, there are complaints about fonts --
> looking into this.  Even with the font problems, the apps seem okay.
> Known working:
>
> Word 2000
> Excel 2000
> PowerPoint 2000
>
> OLE functionality (cross-program transfers, like putting an Excel
> spreadsheet into an Word Document) does not appear to work.  Access and
> FrontPage both require IE 3.0 or higher -- the IE 5.0 installation
> included with my CD did NOT work, so those two are out for the time being.
>
> This is probably the easiest of applications to replace (OpenOffice.org,
> StarOffice) in the grand scheme of things because most people do not use
> 90% of the included functionality.  The major block we've run into is
> that some business education units concentrate on Microsoft
> certification and application-specific training.
>
> *****
>
> Riverdeep Pre-K software:
>
> Riverdeep/Edmark "ABCs and 123s" -- seems to be fully functional on 7.3
> (with updated wine)
>
> Riverdeep/Edmark "Trudy's Time and Place House" -- partially functional
> on updated RHL7.3, has a redraw issue that prevents proper function.
>
> Riverdeep/Edmark "Sammy's Science House" -- partially functional on
> updated RHL7.3, has a redraw issue that prevents proper function.
>
> Riverdeep/Edmark "Millie's Math House" -- partially functional on
> updated RHL7.3, has a redraw issue that prevents proper function.
>
> Riverdeep/Edmark "Travel the World with Timmy! Deluxe" -- nonfunctional
> under updated RHL7.3, needs DirectX 7.0 or better(winex?)
>
> Riverdeep/Edmark "Thinkin' Things: Toony the Loon's Lagoon" --
> nonfunctional on RHL7.3, but also nonfunctional on Windows system, so
> status is unknown (corrupted CD?  incompatibility with Win98?).
>
>
> I was disappointed in how this turned out.  Most of this software is or
> was very recently Win3.1 compatible, which would imply better Wine
> compatibility in my mind.
>
> *****
>
> Orchard Software:
>
> Nonfunctional.  The demo installs, but apparently the database fails to
> initialize and you can't get to any of the lessons.  I'm still working
> on this one, because it is important here in NC.
>
> *****
>
> NCS Mentor for Virginia Schools:
>
> Mostly functional.  A couple of minor display issues, but the program
> works, even running off of a Samba share.
>
> *****
>
> SIFS -- a Windows-based Student Information System in use in Virginia.
> Appears to be fully functional, but probably needs further testing.
>
> *****
>
> SIMS -- a DOS-based SIS.  Folks here have it running with
> dosemu/FreeDOS, there are issues with printing (should be solved) and
> with backup, which is done with a Zip disk.  We also have contact with
> the maintainer, so this should be okay.
>
>
> --
> Matt Drew
> Red Hat, Inc
> Education Pilot Tech Coordinator
> (919)880-7736 (cell)
> (919)754-3700 x44192
> mdrew@redhat.com
>

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