[KLUG Advocacy] A quick SuSe 9.3 As A Workstation Review
Adam Tauno Williams
awilliam at whitemice.org
Mon Apr 25 16:38:27 EDT 2005
> Then I did a "rm -fr ~/.wine*" and started over with your link (above).
> It gave me a different error, but IE and Outlook Express seem to run.
> I was able to open some web pages with IE, and my IMAP email with OE.
Cool, or really, ick! But cool ick.
> Windows Media Player starts, but errors out because it can't find any
> sound device. Is there some setup I need to do for that?
Mute the audio! :) Thats what I did, then it doesn't try to open the
sound device. I don't know how to create an audio device in WINE. I
just use this for tested: yes, the content headers cause it to download
and opens the right thingy.
Also useful for making screenshots for documentation! I no longer need
to VNC to a PC to see what the setting is called in Outlook.
And for kicks I put in my Office 2000 CD, and ran SETUP.EXE. It
installed! I launced Excel, said "Yep, thats Excel" and closed it.
> Also, do you know a URL where I can easily test if Active-X works?
Only sites that require sign-on; most of our suppliers/vendors sites
are big gobs of Active-X. If you find a public one let me know.
I'm still kind of shocked by this, apparently WINE actually amounted to
something when we weren't looking.
> I can hardly wait to go out and get me some spyware and viruses now!
> Linux is so lacking in that area ... ;-)
Exaclty.
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