Goodbye Windows?

Django29 · Post by **Django29** » Thu Jul 10, 2008 3:17 pm

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 réponse est en Français, c'est encore mieux.

Django.

Zac Brown · Post by **Zac Brown** » Thu Jul 10, 2008 3:25 pm

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 réponse est en Français, 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

Paul Johnson · Post by **Paul Johnson** » Thu Jul 10, 2008 4:01 pm

On Thu, 2008-07-10 at 13:24 -0700, Zac Brown wrote:

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).

I'd give this one some time while you investigate to make sure running
what you need on Windows is either wine-able or replicable with native
software.

- CMS like Joomla and a lot of plugs-in, and a few tools for webranking.

Given the propensity of CMS systems to use some kind of LAMP setup, and
Linux being the L in LAMP, you should be able to find something
suitable.

Depending on what particular Adobe software you're speaking of, would determine
that answer. Best to check http://appdb.winehq.org.

Always a good suggestion, should be the first place you go to answer the
"Can I run..." questions.

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.

You're confusing window managers with desktop environments: You can
have a window manager without a desktop environment, but not the other
way around. That being said, anything conforming to freedesktop.org's
expectations for window managers should work (GNUStep, AfterStep, kwin,
enlightenment...)

--
Paul Johnson
[email protected]
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James McKenzie · Post by **James McKenzie** » Thu Jul 10, 2008 10:12 pm

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

dAnIK SeNT · Post by **dAnIK SeNT** » Fri Jul 11, 2008 1:38 am

Latest Wine builds for SUSE are always awailable in Build Service:
http://en.opensuse.org/Additional_YaST_ ... ories#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

Django29 · Post by **Django29** » Fri Jul 11, 2008 3:13 am

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)

Usurp · Post by **Usurp** » Fri Jul 11, 2008 4:57 am

Django29 wrote: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)

voila un PDF complet pour un serveur joomla : (barre Google "joomla linux") :
http://www.joomlafacile.com/
http://www.joomlafacile.com/component/o ... Itemid,48/
le "sorry for my poor english" est inutile, ceux qui parlent un anglais horrible ne le mettent pas et tu te débrouilles très bien