Re: Crossover Office for FreeBSD to run MS Word?
From: Al C. (acanton_nospam_at_takeout_adams-blake.com_nospam)
Date: 07/31/05
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Date: Sun, 31 Jul 2005 15:17:00 GMT
Steve O'Hara-Smith wrote:
> On Fri, 29 Jul 2005 04:03:05 GMT
> "Al C." <acanton_nospam@takeout_adams-blake.com_nospam> wrote:
>
>> I'd like to move to FreeBSD. I've tried to find out if Crossover will
>> work on FreeBSD but so far no luck, so I ask here. (I understand WINE
>> works, but I've never had any success getting Word to run on WINE.)
>
> How about running under Windows on VMWare ?
>
It's a thought but 'overkill' for one application that I don't need more
than two or three times a week (when I get some overly-formatted Word doc
for a state gov. agency.) Besides, Word97 runs fine in Linux with
Crossover. If I move to FreeBSD I don't want to LOSE functionality.
Instead of virtualization, it would be easier to just keep a partition with
Linux on it and boot to that when I need to run Word. OpenOffice works most
of the time... but not all.
Will FreeBSD 'slice' (or whatever you call it... read handbook and FreeBSD
calls slices what I call a partition and a partition what I call a
filesystem... very different) live with a Linux partition? Do you folks use
grub as a boot loader?
Al
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