[Discuss] Last Night's VLUG Meeting

[Joan McIlmoyl Cleghorn]

Regarding WINE - I wasn't able to figure out how to configure it and ran out
of time so need to do some research to try and get it working......ah yes,
if only I had 48 hrs in every day<g>.

As for mailer - Eudora is now part of the Open Source world so that isn't an
issue plus I've used Thunderbird as a newsgroup reader for some time as
well. Browser-wise, I've used Firefox for a long time and before that
Opera.....have never used IE.....always Netscape till AOL bought then
switched to Opera (a leftover from my OS/2 days as Netscape was the browser
to use with it). I also use Open Office whenever an odd version of M$ Word
won't open in WordPerfect. WordPerfect Office Pro is one of my 'must have'
suites along with CorelDraw and PhotoImpact and The Master Genealogist and
Dreamweaver. I go back to DOS days with WP, over 10 years and a db of over
50,000 people with TMG and close to 10 years with CorelDraw. PhotoImpact is
more recent and Dreamweaver is only about 5 years, however, I'm not about to
throw the years of learning away and try to start again on those complex and
powerful programs<g>. Not to mention the hundreds of documents/files created
in each of them......nope, Life's too short to spend the next 5 years trying
to convert them all to something else I'd also have to learn from
scratch<G>.

8-)
Joan


> Date: Fri, 11 Apr 2008 21:42:11 -0700
> From: Patrick <NixNoob-sneaking at sneakEmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [Discuss] Last Night's VLUG Meeting
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> On Thu, 10 Apr 2008 11:07:48 -0700
> Joan McIlmoyl Cleghorn wrote:
>
> > You've raised an excellent point Alan. It is one of the most difficult
> > challenges in first moving to Linux - trying to choose a specific
> > distro.....<g>
> >
> > As a Windoze user who is trying to migrate to Linux, I'm in the
> situation of
> > having a couple of programs that simply aren't replicated in Linux (and
> are
> > my primary programs) so I will find it necessary to use some vm-type
> > program.
>
> Did you have any luck with Wine?  One advantage there is that you
> can run Windows and Linux software side-by-side, copy and paste
> back and forth between them, etc.  If there's only a few programs
> you need to carry over from Windows, that could work.
>
> Instead of booting an entire `guest' operating system, it only
> creates enough of a Windows-like environment for most Windows
> programs to run.  Eg, it only tries to make one application
> think it's still running under Windows, instead of recreating the
> complete system.  Then again, some programs aren't so easily
> fooled.
>
> I brought this up a while ago on the Newbies list, and don't mean
> to be pushy bringing it up again.  Just wondered how that turned
> out for you.  Did it turn out for you?
>
> There are other options too.  Eudora was one of the Windows
> programs you'd listed, and if I remember right [from using an
> old Mac version briefly, then trying it under Windows] it has
> some pretty good import/export facilities.  If you're trying to
> keep old messages and addresses, what about exporting them to a
> format Thunderbird or another Linux-native mailer can import from?
>
> Anyway, just a few random thoughts there.  I hope some of them
> are useful.
>
>
> >
> > 8-)
> > Joan
>


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Joan McIlmoyl Cleghorn, U.E.
in Beautiful Saseenos near Sooke & Victoria British Columbia
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