How do i run microsoft office products on linux? 2

[farley99]

How do i run microsoft office products on linux?

 

[sleipnir214]

Through the use of a piece of software called wine (WIndows Emulator).

But be advised that not everything can be run under wine. It is something where there is a good Linux-native replacement?

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[smah]

Crossover Office is supposed to work

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[flugh]

I'm a Linux enthusiast. Been using it for over five years (Redhat, Mandrake, Debian). Sometimes it's my only operating system. Other times it gets pushed back in favor of Windows. All depends on what I'm working on at the time.

Having said that, I'd have to recommend that if you want to run MS Office apps, you should run an MS operating system. No shame in that. And when you want to work on something in Linux (for me, it's PHP+MySQL+Apache stuff), run Linux. Bugger that trying to make one do the other. Too aggravating for me

Just tossing out a different opinion. Surely crossover office or wine could give you a middle-of-the-road solution. Might even do all you need. Just my 2 cents

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[haneo]

Try OpenOffice it's free and can be installed on Windows, Linux, Unix......

http://www.openoffice.org

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[pansophic]

I have run Word, Excel and PowerPoint through wine. They all operated relatively well (some keystroke functions just don't work, and I am a keyboard driver). Visio did not behave well at all.

I use OpenOffice, unless I am working with one specific client, who does some weird image processing in Word (OpenOffice hangs in an infinite loop). If I go into Word and remove a couple of the images that are in their default document template, everything is fine.

For that Client, I bought VMWare and run the copy of Windows that came with my computer in a virtual machine. But I wouldn't dream of doing that on a machine with less than 256M of RAM, and I don't do it on one with less than 512M.

I understand that Applixware (spelling?) is very good at running MS products under Linux, but I've never used it myself.


pansophic

 

[clonny2]

smah is correct. Crossover Office works nicely, including running Outlook connected to an Exchange Server. It is not perfect, but very usable.

I know for a fact that IBM internally uses wine to run their notes client. I know that I have linux engineers here at SNAP, that along with myself use CrossOver Office.

http://www.codeweavers.com

>---------------------------------------Lawrence Feldman
SR. QA. Engineer SNAP Appliance
lfeldman@snapappliance.com

 

[AP81]

I tried Crossover Office several months ago. I got Dreamweaver, Flash MX, PSP and Office XP working fine. You could probably get other software working too. They only test Crossover office with a limited range of software. However, it is not free and some software does not run 100% perfectly.

I back up what flugh said. Run one or the other. However, if you're still set on running MS apps in Linux, here are a few options:

VMWare - Install a Windows Virtual Machine in Linux (or Vice Versa)
Crossover Office - Install M$ products in Linux
WINE- Run Windows Apps through Linux

Personally, a I would set up dual boot system.

 

[enorbet]

Hello
......Dual boot or use some ragtag classic pentium wondows box just for Office stuff that just has to be M$ and access it through your linux box through the network. You can even use VNC to have your doze desktop on your linux screen. Crossover and Wine aren't bad but native is always best so convert to Open or Star Office as much as you can and for what's left use the network. My guess is that within a year or so you'll find you really didn't need that M$ crap in the first place since so much better software is being developed under the GPL than even possible under "The Cathedral". Get "Bazaar"...go GPL.

Jimmy