Re: [seul-edu] Edu-apps under wine

[Bruno Coudoin <bruno.coudoin@free.fr>]

Why don't you instal 2 of your PC with Windows and 2 with Linux and the
current available edu applications.

Bruno.

Le ven 26/04/2002 à 19:09, Jim Thomas a écrit :
> Along the same lines as the equivalency list (i.e., OpenOffice ~=
> MSOffice, Mozilla ~= IE, etc), how about a list of MS-based edu apps
> that run well under wine?
> 
> I say this because I have recently started using Lotus Notes with
> wine, and wine has been very impressive.
> 
> The school where I'm the volunteer sysadmin has four Windows boxen
> in the library that are NEVER working (although the linux PC's in
> the lab always work wonderfully).  Over the summer I'm going to look
> at the MS-apps they run there and see how they hold up under wine.
> If I can get enough of them to work, I'll be reformatting four
> harddrives ;-)
> 
> Here's a list of some of the apps we run:
> Encarta
> World Book
> Britannica
> SimPark
> QuickVerse
> 
> The encyclopedias are a MUST.  If I can't get them to run, I can't
> switch over.
> 
> Has anyone tried any of these under wine?  How did they work out?
> What about other apps? (Accelerated Reader, Math Blaster, etc)
> 
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