[SGVLUG] Wine or VM

[Dan Kegel]

On Thu, Feb 12, 2009 at 12:16 AM, Claude Felizardo
<cafelizardo at gmail.com> wrote:
> I've been contemplating installing either WINE or a VM but wondering
> which solution is best.  Would running winXP via VM be too much for a
> 2.8 GHz Dell Optiplex GX280 (single core with hyper threading I
> believe) with only 1 GB of memory?   Or I could try Wine but would I
> use the windoze VPN client or would it be able to access the client
> running on Linux?  I pretty much would only need to run IE though
> actually I'd need to run MS Office as well - can't use OpenOffice as
> there's always some kind of incompatibility problem one way or the
> other.

That machine is probably ok for VM as long as you don't
do anything big inside it.  (Virus checker might be your
biggest memory hog!)

However, you might want to play around with Wine
just to see how well it runs ie6 and MS Office.
You can install ie6 with winetricks.  MS Office
is more complicated, you might have to check the
wine appdb for how.
Just keep the VM for when you run into trouble.

What kind of incompatibilities are you hitting with
OpenOffice, and have you tried the latest version?
- Dan