[cw-discuss] Which distributions are more compatible with crossover

[Jeremy White]

Krsnendu dasa wrote:
> I have ubuntu at home and K12ltsp 6 (Fedora 6) at school. It seems I
> can get some shockwave programs running on the ubuntu computer but not
> the Fedora one. Is this normal? These shockwave programs are very
> important for our school. In that case would I be best to use Ubuntu
> at school also. It's possible that I have CL 6.1 at home and CL6.01 at
> school, so that could also be the difference, but I thought I would
> ask.

We list the distributions we support here:
  http://www.codeweavers.com/products/cxoffice/requirements/
although we sincerely hope that CrossOver will run on any x86 based
distribution.

Fedora is tricky, mostly due to the SELinux and other experimental
security tools they include.  If you disable, or work to configure,
the SELinux and audit tools you can generally mitigate it.  However,
being candid, the Fedora project has clearly demonstrated the willingness
to break Wine, so I usually recommend against it.  Obviously, with K12LTSP,
that's not really an option, but I'm trying to reply as generally as
I can.

Cheers,

Jeremy