Le 03/03/2011 22:04, Amichai Rotman a écrit :



I would like to have a Windows app that can run from a USB Stick
(without the need to install it) that will scan the installed hardware
and software and give a table as a result that lists the Windows app on
one side and the parallel Linux app on the other. If no match was found
- a link to a site to report the app to a community database that
updates the alternatives, or something along those lines.

Any app like that exists?



Yes.

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Hi Ric

> On Thu, 2011-03-03 at 16:35 -0800, MR ZenWiz wrote:
> > On Thu, Mar 3, 2011 at 4:17 PM, Ric Moore
<wayward4now@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > To date, for instance, we still don't have an actual equivalent to
MS
> > > Access ...that is a drop-in replacement to handle an existing
Access
> > > database, unless you go through the contortions of exporting
and
> > > importing into OpenOffice Database.
> >
> > Well, we *are* talking about Access here, right? Do we *really*
want
> > a drop-in replacement for something that ghastly?
> >
> > Just sayin'....
>
> I hear ya! I just get files to deal with, from our Windows addicted
> staff members, and I'm still in stealth mode to convert them and
theiropen office
> pet data projects over to Linux. Ole Arlo was right, what we got here
is
> a "movement", ...towards the "Right Thing". It ain't, by any stretch,
a
> "Fait accompli". Ric

Out of curioustity I decided to look thru synaptic and came across
mdbtools-gmdb. Might that be functional? As I have no need of it I've
never tried it but maybe worth a shot?

James

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On 03/03/2011 09:04 PM, Amichai Rotman wrote:

Any app like that exists?

As others have mentioned, no. And, as others have also
mentioned, most (but not all) MS Windows applications will
have an equivalent under Linux.

For applications that have no equivalent or the equivalent
is not satisfactory for whatever reason, there are three
possible ways to keep using Windows versions. Firstly, many
MS Windows applications will run under Linux emulator called
wine - you can find it in Ubuntu repositories. What will not
run under wine (typically programs that deal with some specific
USB hardware devices) will usually run under VirtualBox
(http://www.virtualbox.org/). Finally, for the few programs
that will not run under VirtualBox, you can set up your
computer with dual boot.

In any case, prudent move for any Windows user is to move
gradually. For a desktop computer, your best (and rather
inexpensive) solution is to install an extra hard drive and
boot into it for Linux use. You don't have to change anything
on your Windows system: instead of re-partitioning the drive
and use dual boot, you use your bios to bout from the Windows
or Linux hard drive. For a laptop computer, dual boot is the
only option. My suggestion is NEVER to change anything on the
existing hard drive but instead to create a clone of the
existing drive, replace the hard drive in the laptop and then
re-partition and install Linux with dual boot.

Mark R,



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On 03/03/2011 10:55 PM, Kent Borg wrote:

- If you have some time you might lobby the publisher of your needed MS
Windows programs to release Linux versions.


Unfortunately, this is hardly worth the time and effort: for a number
of technical reasons it is not really practical for proprietary,
commercial, "closed source" application software vendors to create
and distribute Linux binaries.

(Come to think of it, it would be a much better move to lobby Linux
distribution publishers to make it simple and economical for vendors
of those applications to create and distribute Linux versions...)

Mark R.


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On Fri, Mar 4, 2011 at 7:08 PM, M.R. <makrober@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 03/03/2011 09:04 PM, Amichai Rotman wrote:
>>
>> Any app like that exists?
>
> As others have mentioned, no. And, as others have also
> mentioned, most (but not all) MS Windows applications will
> have an equivalent under Linux.
>

Often as not, there is more than one - think web browser for example....

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On Sat, 2011-03-05 at 08:33 +1000, James wrote:
> Hi Ric
>
> > On Thu, 2011-03-03 at 16:35 -0800, MR ZenWiz wrote:
> > > On Thu, Mar 3, 2011 at 4:17 PM, Ric Moore
> <wayward4now@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > > To date, for instance, we still don't have an actual equivalent to
> MS
> > > > Access ...that is a drop-in replacement to handle an existing
> Access
> > > > database, unless you go through the contortions of exporting
> and
> > > > importing into OpenOffice Database.
> > >
> > > Well, we *are* talking about Access here, right? Do we *really*
> want
> > > a drop-in replacement for something that ghastly?
> > >
> > > Just sayin'....
> >
> > I hear ya! I just get files to deal with, from our Windows addicted
> > staff members, and I'm still in stealth mode to convert them and
> theiropen office
> > pet data projects over to Linux. Ole Arlo was right, what we got here
> is
> > a "movement", ...towards the "Right Thing". It ain't, by any stretch,
> a
> > "Fait accompli". Ric
>
> Out of curioustity I decided to look thru synaptic and came across
> mdbtools-gmdb. Might that be functional? As I have no need of it I've
> never tried it but maybe worth a shot?

I tried it. It's functionality went past me in both lanes. So, I didn't
see immediate gratification, but maybe I'll dink with it more later.
Ric


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In any case, prudent move for any Windows user is to move
gradually. For a desktop computer, your best (and rather
inexpensive) solution is to install an extra hard drive and
boot into it for Linux use. You don't have to change anything
on your Windows system: instead of re-partitioning the drive
and use dual boot, you use your bios to bout from the Windows
or Linux hard drive. For a laptop computer, dual boot is the
only option. My suggestion is NEVER to change anything on the
existing hard drive but instead to create a clone of the
existing drive, replace the hard drive in the laptop and then
re-partition and install Linux with dual boot.


There might be some complications with installing a new HD. I don't know if it
is still that way but M$ required you to reactivate Windows if you made
significant changes to your computer. A new HD was one of these significant
changes. To get a new activation, you often had to jump through many hoops and
was a pain. At the very least, you had to be on the phone with a M$ rep for a
very long time.


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On 03/05/2011 04:02 PM, Bill Stanley wrote:

There might be some complications with installing a new HD. I don't know
if it is still that way but M$ required you to reactivate Windows if you
made significant changes to your computer...


Correct, however...


A new HD was one of these significant changes.


Microsoft's rules determining what is "significant" are indeed quite
capricious, but in my previous experience (on XP, which was the last
Microsoft OS I used) just adding a hard drive to a secondary SATA
channel never provoked a re-activation request. Neither did the
re-partitioning of an existing laptop drive, such as required to
install dual boot Ubuntu. However, IIRC, replacing the hard drive
with a clone, did.


To get a new activation, you often had to jump
through many hoops and was a pain. At the very least, you had to be on
the phone with a M$ rep for a very long time.


I remember doing it over the phone, but using an automated
question/answer sequence, quite quick and simple.

As I mentioned, my experience is somewhat stale. Perhaps some list
members enjoying current Redmond crop can offer a more up-to-date
observations?

Mark R.


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