On Mon, Aug 05, 2002 at 05:33:26PM -0600, Gary Hennigan wrote: > I noticed someone recommending Win4Lin in another thread. I use VMWare > on my workstation and I'd like to try something similar on my laptop, > but everyone knows VMWare is pretty resource-hungry and while my > laptop is loaded (2GHz P4, 1GB RAM) I'd prefer a lighter solution than > VMWare if there's one available. > > My main motivation for running Windoze are writing these "wonderful" > PowerPoint presentations that my management loves. To date I've been > dual booting to Win2k, but that's a pain and I'd much prefer something > that worked directly under Linux. The complication is that PowerPoint > presentations can be pretty intense, with movies showing simulation > results, and I'm curious how Win4Lin does. Anyone have any experience > with it? > > I'm running Debian 3.0. Openoffice Impress can save in powerpoint M$PowerPoint format. Don't know how it would look under powerpoint though - haven't used that for years... Beware though, openoffice isn't exactly light either... -- Karl E. Jørgensen karl@jorgensen.com www.karl.jorgensen.com ==== Today's fortune: The University of California Statistics Department; where mean is normal, and deviation standard.
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