Dan Kegel wrote:
http://forum.ubuntuusers.de/topic/softmaker-office-2008--eine-alternative--v... has a review of an office suite named Softmaker Office 2008, available for Windows and now also Linux. The review says in part
"Irritiert hat uns, daß die Windows-Version von Office 2008, die von Stick gestartet werden kann, unter Wine besser, schneller und stabiler läuft, wie die native Office 2008 für Linux. Wer also die Windows-Version legal erworben hat, kann hier Geld sparen."
("It irritated us that the Windows version runs better on Wine than the native Linux version. If you have the Windows version already, save your money and run it on Wine.")
That's praise of sorts... although I hope it doesn't dissuade other vendors from doing native ports.
- Dan
I noticed the same type of thing when I was playing with DVD Shrink a couple days ago. Ripping speed in DVD Shrink via Wine was significantly faster than on Windows. What usually is a 2.5 hour process was about 1.5-1.75 hour process.
I agree though, hopefully the software vendors will do native ports :).
-Zac
I just attended the convention for the National Verbatim Reporters Association in Savannah, where I demonstrated DNS 9.0 running on WINE with Ubuntu Studio (realtime kernel seems to make a slight difference). All the vendors were impressed, and one said he'd never seen DNS 9 run that fast, that accurately.