[scribus] New Linux User -- Scribus in place of PageMaker 6?

[John Beardmore]

Steve wrote:
> On Sun, 10 Aug 2008 02:42:33 +0100
> John Beardmore <John at T4sLtd.co.uk> wrote:

>> Steve wrote:
>>> On Sun, 10 Aug 2008 01:33:52 +0100
>>> John Beardmore <John at T4sLtd.co.uk> wrote:
>>>>> What I'm looking for is an alternative to Windows that I can work
>>>>> with. PM6 might run under WINE just fine,  
>>>> Interesting thought. Does anybody know if it does ?
>>> I consult for a weekly newspaper that wants to move to Linux, but
>>> can't give up PM6 (they hate PM7). I tried PM6 under Wine about a
>>> year ago but it wasn't especially stable. Recently I put VirtualBox
>>> with Win2000 on one of their Linux machines and installed PM6 into
>>> that. This works perfectly. It also makes for a simple work flow.
>>> They love it. I'll be setting up all their machines with this
>>> configuration in the next couple of months.
>> Cool.  Is this VM Ware or another solution ?
>>
>>
>> Cheers, J/.
> 
> Another (but very similar) solution. See http://www.virtualbox.org/.
> It's open source, so on my Debian boxes it's just "apt-get install
> virtualbox".

Excellent !  I got VM Ware years ago and mostly used it to run the 
LigandFit anti cancer drug design software under windows on a linux box, 
  but I'm glad there's an OSS solution now !  VMW sure was expensive.


Cheers, J/.
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