[KLUG Members] Wine project

[Robert G. Brown]

On Fri, 17 Oct 2003 07:55:17 -0500, "Paul Jursinic, Ph.D." <jursinic@mcw.edu> wrote:

>There are two pieces of software, besides the Microsoft Office suit, that I
>am interested in running on this computer that now only uses the Linux
>operating system.  Both pieces of software were written to run computers
>using Win98.
Do you have the source code?

>The first piece of software is called MapCHECK and analyzes data from a
>radiation detection instrument called a MapCHECK, which has 455 diode
>detectors in a 23 cm x 23 cm array.  This instrument is used for measuring
>radiation patterns from a linear accelerator used to treat cancer.
Maybe Sun Nuclear would like a Linux port of this....??

Have you looked at http://www.mathresolutions.com  ?
It might be helpful.

>The second piece of software calculates and graphs attenuation coefficient
>data for elements and mixtures versus x-ray energy from 10 keV to 50 MeV.

Looks like interesting applicatios, like radiation therapy or visualization.

>I would like to run these programs on the Linux computer and I hope Wine
>will let me do it.  If Wine doesn't work then I probably will dual boot the
>computer after putting both Win98 and Linux on it.  
Te BETTER choice for you would be VMware, with allows you to run Windows
as a Linux process (in an X-Window baseframe, or window). That way Windows
and any processes that run there co-exist with any other Linux applications.

>This is a pain since much of the work I am doing is being done with the 
>Linux operating system.
Sure, and rebooting all the time is time-consuming and essentially ugly.

>Jumping back and forth between operating systems is inconvenient but I may
>have to do it if I can't get Wine to work for me.
Right, that's why tools like VMware are going to be very helpful to you, unless
the above-cited resources yield suitable native Linux applications.

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