Re: wine or VM

["Guillermo Garron" <guillermo.fedora@gmail.com>]

On 3/18/07, Bernd.Kloss <bernd.kloss@web.de> wrote:
> Etch
> 2.6.18-3-k7
> KDE 3.5
>
> Hello,
>
> we used to run programs on WIN98SE, Win2000 and XP using for instance
> QUICKTIME or being programmed in Pascal using graphics.
> Some people are using powerpoint-presentations and WINWORD-Textfiles. Both
> with problems since StarOffice 8 PP5 is not transferring everything exactly.
> So some of those people don't want to take Staroffice or whatever. If it is
> not working the way they did it, forget it.
>
> I made a few experiments with wine, but had problems with charactersizes in
> graphics, if it was running at all.
>
> Is a virtual machine a better alternative to wine?
>
> Which vm is a good advice on a 1,8-GHz computer with 500MB? How much memory is
> minimum?
>
> We just need an environment for MS-Office, some special-programs and
> shockwave-applets.
>
> Do you need updating Windows once it is running in an VM without internet?
>
> 1. Wine or vm?
> 2. Best choice for ETCH?
> 3. A good list or forum to ask further questions?

I am using VM on ETCH, also tried Qemu and Wine, but not so deep, VM i
saw it performs better tha Qemu (faster).

You can check how to install the three of them on this link.

http://linux.go2linux.org/taxonomy/term/8

Hope it helps.

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Guillermo Garron
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