Re: MUAs that compare with Outlook (your chance to show how much better Linux is than MS!!)

[Brian Nelson <nelson@bignachos.com>]

Brendon Leese wrote:

> If you wish to use GNU/Linux nonetheless then perhap you could use wine 
> (www.winehq.com). "Wine is animplementation of the Windows 3.x and Win32 APIs 
> on top of X and Unix. Think of Wine as a Windows compatibility layer". Simply 
> mount your old Windows partition containing Outlook and run Outlook with 
> 'wine outlook.exe' (or was it OE.exe? been too long). If you're lucky, it 
> might work. If not you could try fiddling around with configuration options.


A more reliable solution, at the expense of greater resource demand, is 
to run Windows in a VM provided by win4lin or VMWare.  It's kinda neat 
if running Windows in a window in XWindows is your kinda thing.

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Brian Nelson