[LINK] RFI: Cross-Media Publishing under Linux/OO

[Tom Worthington]

On 08/08/11 13:28, Roger Clarke wrote:

> 1.  Avoid 'dual booting', because only one OS is alive at a time ...

If you just need to use a program which runs under just one operating 
system occasionally, then dual booting makes sense. I copedworked for a 
year or so with Linux and Ms-Windows dual boot. If the audience I 
presenting to had suits on then I booted Ms-Windows, if they had 
t-shirts I booted Linux. ;-)

> 5.  So there seem to be two possibilities ...
> -   run Linux ...

You might find that the Windows applications will run using Wine on 
Linux: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wine_%28software%29

But I decided this was all too difficult and now just use Linux. The 
only application I could not get for that was accounting software. My 
accountant couldn't recommend any Linux accounting software, so I use 
the web based SAASU: 
http://blog.tomw.net.au/2009/08/web-based-accounting-package.html


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