[cw-discuss] Miserable 6.0 experience...

[Bodvar Bjorgvinsson]

What I cannot for the life of me understand is why Linux users are
bothering trying to use M$ Word on their Linux installations. Why not
Open Office? The only thing I have found out to be "better" in the M$
Office are Excel and PowerPoint.

M$ Word IS GENUINE JUNK and has been proven so by all too many. Basta.
My experience of M$ Word in publishing has at times been disastrous.

If you are doing something really serous, you have Adobe FrameMaker
and the old-fashioned TeX/LaTex.

With OOo you can save your work in M$ Word format and not loose a
thing, unless you are doing some very complex job.

This, at least is my experience.

Bodvar

On 2/16/07, Sid Boyce <sboyce at blueyonder.co.uk> wrote:
> Jeremy White wrote:
> > Actually, I've been educated on this; there appears to be a known
> > issue and fix that seems to work for SuSE 10.2.
> >
> > So, definitely get a ticket in, and 6.1 will definitely fix this issue.
> >
> > Cheers,
> >
> > Jeremy
> >
> I only have Office 97 and it's OK with 10.2 and 10.3Alpha1, so I don't
> know if it's an issue with Office 2003.
> Regards
> Sid.
>
> > Jeremy White wrote:
> >> Hi Derek,
> >>
> >> 10.2 came out after we'd frozen our test platforms, so we didn't
> >> test against it at all.
> >>
> >> And you're not the first person to report odd troubles like this.
> >>
> >> I'm not sure if we've solved this yet, or not; either way, it owuld
> >> really help if you could submit a ticket on it.
> >>
> >> (Standard suggestions are to investigate your ulimits and to
> >> make sure that AppArmor is configured to allow wine to run).
> >>
> >> Cheers,
> >>
> >> Jeremy
> >>
> >> Derek Fountain wrote:
> >>
> >>> I bought Crossover 6.0 a week or so back after a good experience with
> >>> 3.0 Pro a long time back. Not going well...
> >>>
> >>> Installation was OK on my SUSE-10.2 single CPU machine. I only need Word
> >>> and Excel from Office 2003, so I stuck that disk in and ran a customised
> >>> install. The installation hung up three quarters of the way in. Some
> >>> Wine process was using 100% of the CPU. I left it for 30 mins, but it
> >>> clearly wasn't going to come back. I spent the next few minutes killing
> >>> wine processes, and eventually rebooted to get rid of the zombies.
> >>>
> >>> I only need Office 2000 really, so I dug out that CD and started again,
> >>> and this time it succeeded. But now Excel is proving unreliable. It's
> >>> hung up in the same way twice this afternoon - some wine process taking
> >>> 100% of the CPU and nothing happening in the application.
> >>>
> >>> I wiped everything in sight and went back to Crossover 3.0 Pro. It's
> >>> only been an hour but that's been OK so far.
> >>>
> >>> Is this a known problem, or is anyone else seeing it? I've not been able
> >>> to reproduce it reliably (and I need the machine for work, rather than
> >>> as a test box, so I'm not keen to reproduce it either!)
> >>>
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