Hi. I know that Linux provides most of the softwares we need for business, equivalent of Outlook, MS Office, IE, ... but : Is it realistic to think that we can delete Win XP, and use Wine with Linux, for a professional use, with : - All Adobe, with the ICC profiles (I use Monaco EZcolor for the calibration). - CMS like Joomla and a lot of plugs-in, and a few tools for webranking. I hope the answer is yes (with comments please). Is there a difference for the Wine behavior, with Ubuntu, Suse, or another? (I prefer Suse). Si la r?ponse est en Fran?ais, c'est encore mieux. Django.
Django29 wrote:> Hi. > I know that Linux provides most of the softwares we need for business, equivalent of Outlook, MS Office, IE, ... but : > Is it realistic to think that we can delete Win XP, and use Wine with Linux, for a professional use, with : > - All Adobe, with the ICC profiles (I use Monaco EZcolor for the calibration). > - CMS like Joomla and a lot of plugs-in, and a few tools for webranking. > > I hope the answer is yes (with comments please). > Is there a difference for the Wine behavior, with Ubuntu, Suse, or another? > (I prefer Suse). > Si la r?ponse est en Fran?ais, c'est encore mieux. > > Django. > >Depending on what particular Adobe software you're speaking of, would determine that answer. Best to check http://appdb.winehq.org. The difference in Wine behavior you'd see would be in a non-supported window manager rather than the specific distro itself I suspect. Gnome is well supported and KDE is mostly. Things beyond that are iffy at best. -Zac
Django29 wrote:> Hi. > I know that Linux provides most of the softwares we need for business, equivalent of Outlook, MS Office, IE, ... but : > Is it realistic to think that we can delete Win XP, and use Wine with Linux, for a professional use, with : > - All Adobe, with the ICC profiles (I use Monaco EZcolor for the calibration). > - CMS like Joomla and a lot of plugs-in, and a few tools for webranking. > >Joomla should be available for Windows, Linux and MacOSX. Check the Joomla site for information about this. Is there a program that you need to support Joomla that is Windows only? Wine under Linux is available for many distributions. Check with the SuSE site to see if there is one available for that distro. If not, you will have to look on the Web or 'roll your own' and build it yourself. James McKenzie
Latest Wine builds for SUSE are always awailable in Build Service: http://en.opensuse.org/Additional_YaST_Package_Repositories#Wine Just add wine package repository for your version of SUSE via YaST, then install wine package with "Install software" YaST module. -- Best regards, Danila Sentiabov aka dAnIK SeNT
Thank you for your answers. I don't find any information about Joomla for Linux. I'll post the question in the French Joomla forum. There are other tools I need to work, such as Ranking Tool Box, Swishmax, Flash MX, Dreamweaver, Kompozer, and a few others... Instead of Adobe (Photoshop 7, Illustrator 10), I know I can use Gimp and Inskape for Linux, but : - it will take a long time to be able to work as fast with them as now with Adobe. - the question of ICC profile is very important for this work, and I have not tested Gimp and Inskape. In conclusion, I think I have to install Suse on a third hird drive (that means change my power supply), with wine, and try all these softwares without windows. Thanks a lot. (and sorry for my poor english)