[CLUE-Tech] Win4Lin vs. VMWare vs. CrossOver Office

[Hani Duwaik]

Hello,

I recently came across this LUG and thought I'd subscribe to some of
your mailing lists.

At the moment, I have recently installed RedHat 8.0 (soon to upgrade to
9.0) and am trying to use it as my primary desktop.  However, for
various reasons, I need to use various tools in the Microsoft Office
Suite.

In any case, I was wondering if anyone has had much experience with the
following products which seem to provide interoperability with MS apps:

Win4Lin/VMWare/CrossOver Office

FYI:  I recently downloaded the trial version of CrossOver Office and
was able to successfully install several MS apps.  However, I noticed
that when using Outlook to access an IMAP system requiring SPA
authentication, the CrossOver app freezes.  Otherwise, I find that it
is very useable for other apps.

In regards to VMWare, I haven't used it in several years (I've toyed
with Linux for about 5-6 years now) and the last time I used it, it was
somewhat of a resource hog and had minimal performance (kind of
sluggish) but I now have a much stronger system with more memory (an
AMD 1500+ with 512MB).

I have no experience with Win4Lin.


Any comments, thoughts, or feedback would be very much appreciated.

Thanks,

-Hani

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