Re: [OT] Rosetta Stone language program on Linux?

[Scott Ferguson <prettyfly.productions@gmail.com>]

On 01/01/12 10:35, Patrick Wiseman wrote:
> On Sat, Dec 31, 2011 at 6:12 PM, Scott Ferguson
> <prettyfly.productions@gmail.com> wrote:
>> On 01/01/12 07:16, Patrick Wiseman wrote:
>>> Hi:
>>>
>>> I was wondering if anyone here has any experience with a Rosetta Stone
>>> language program on a Linux box, either the web-based or the DVD
>>> program. �I want to (re)learn French, and most reviews suggest that
>>> Rosetta Stone is the best.
>>>
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> At the product website, it says it
> runs on Windows AND Mac OS X, which (you may or may not know) is UN*X
> underneath, so there was at least a chance it might run on Linux,
> depending on what format the DVD uses.  (And the audio is MP3.)

DVD format is not the problem.

Large chunks of OSX are based on NeXT/FreeBSD - so maybe, with some
work, it'll run on Debian KFreeBSD. I suspect Cocoa would need some
coaxing though.
I'm just guessing - but I'd suggest you don't buy the software on the
strength of OSX == Unix (a posix *certification*), therefore as Debian
== posix compliant == OSX software will run on it.

Reading the DVD shouldn't be a problem - AFAIK Debian Linux can read all
the same DVD books as OSX and Windoof. Windoof might still have problems
with Rockridge - Debian Linux doesn't.

> 
> Thanks for the help, anyway.
> 
> Patrick
> 
> 

Almost certainly VirtualBox will allow you to run the software *within*
Debian.


Cheers

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