Re: [OT] Rosetta Stone language program on Linux?
On Sat, 31 Dec 2011 23:22:52 -0500
Patrick Wiseman <pwiseman@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sat, Dec 31, 2011 at 11:08 PM, Scott Ferguson
> <prettyfly.productions@gmail.com> wrote:
> > 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.
> >>>>
> > <snipped>
> >
> >> 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.
>
> I wasn't going to BUY it on that basis; I asked if anyone here had
> experience with it on that basis. And, obviously, I know that OS X
> software doesn't just "run" on Linux. I think you take me for an
> idiot; I'm not.
>
> Patrick
>
>
Hi Patrick, Happy New Year
If you did decide to run in a VM, I'd recommend VMplayer rather than Virtualbox.
Simply because IMO the sound & USB devices are handled better.
HTH
vive la anglais
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