Boston Linux Meeting Wednesday July 19, 2000 Linux as your only machine

[Gerry.Feldman at compaq.com (Jerry Feldman)]

Most of the Corel stuff is native Linux and uses the Wine library. I'm not 
sure about PhotoPaint specifically. 

On 14 Jul 2000, at 10:33, Mark J. Dulcey wrote:

> Jerry Feldman wrote:
> > 
> > When: July 19, 2000 7:00 p.m. (6:30PM Q&A)
> > Topic:  Linux as your only machine/Windows Emulators
> > Presented by: Jerry Feldman <gaf at blu.org>
> > Location:  MIT Building 4-370
> > 
> > I will be talking about the various ways Windows users can move over the
> > Linux and continue using their favorite Windows applications. I have
> > prepared a presentation for the IBM Share convention (http://www.share.org)
> > at the Hynes on July 24th and 25th. I have TreLOS' win4lin installed on my
> > laptop, but we'll discuss alternatives such as WINE and other emulators
> > such as VMWare and Plex86. My formal presentation includes a discussion of
> > setting up Linux for LAN access, but we do that every BLU meeting, so we'll
> > focus on some of the alternatives.
> 
> Speaking of Windows applications for Linux, Corel PhotoPaint 9 for Linux
> (which is actually a Windows application running under Wine - it comes
> bundled with its own copy) is now available for free download from
> http://linux.corel.com - and it actually works. It's another thing that
> you might want to show, as an example of a large Windows application
> running under an emulator.


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Jerry Feldman
Contractor, eInfrastructure Partner Engineering   
508-467-4315 http://www.testdrive.compaq.com/linux/

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