[Discuss] Last Night's VLUG Meeting

[Patrick]

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

:-)

Patrick.

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