[ale] RHEL 5 is out
Scott Castaline
hscast at charter.net
Thu Mar 15 20:30:15 EDT 2007
Michael B. Trausch wrote:
> On Thu, 2007-03-15 at 17:48 -0400, James P. Kinney III wrote:
>> <soapbox> I want to see M$ crushed into nothingness. I don't care half a
>> rats whisker about interoperability. The more Linux stuff kicks Bill in
>> the balls, the happier I get. It is only through years of illegal
>> activity, dirty tactics and outright lies that Microsoft has managed to
>> stay afloat. I get nauseous every time I think about the under table
>> slime that got Novell to "partner" with the dark side. Using Xen to
>> provide a stable platform to run busted-a$$ Microsoft code is the only
>> way they can come up with for keeping their miserable company from
>> imploding under the crushing freedom of Open Source, no draconian
>> license crap, enjoy your multimedia happy fun software like
>> Linux.<soapbox>
>>
>> All windows problems are solved by the appropriate use of fdisk.
>
> I can honestly say that I agree. As I am more-or-less required to run
> it at the moment for school functions, it reminds me of these
> tactics. (I actually was able to get MS Office to install under Wine,
> and it works, more or less, but without the equation editor?which is
> the one part that I do need. OOo exports only to MathType, and not
> Microsoft's reduced-functionality Equation Editor, and my teacher is
> too lazy to fix it when she receives the assignment. You know what's
> required to convert a MathType object to Microsoft's Equation Editor?
> Double-clicking it in Word with Equation Editor installed.)
>
> So, I do my homework in OOo running on Linux, move over to Office
> under XP, fix the document, go back to Linux, and transmit it.
> *shrugs* Inefficient, but it works.
>
> ? Mike
>
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ever consider VM? VirtualBox just went GPL. I believe it'll work with an
existing M$ parttiton so that all you have to do is install the VBox
software . If not maybe someone else knows whether VMWare will work that
way?
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