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superboyac:
I am trialing Linux Mint 13 Maya. I hope CrossOver will help me run MS Office 2007, TrueCrypt, and The Bat!. Thanks to mahesh2k for the head up and 40hz for the enlightenment.  :Thmbsup:
-erikts (October 29, 2012, 08:47 PM)
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I'd be very interested in your experience with the Bat.  That's one of those programs that I'd have to take with me if I ever went to linux.  Either that, or I need to find a good linux alternative.  I looked a little at linux email clients...meh.

mwb1100:
I hope CrossOver will help me run ..., TrueCrypt, ....
-erikts (October 29, 2012, 08:47 PM)
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TrueCrypt already has Linux support, which I suspect will run better than a Windows version under Wine/CrossOver.  I'm not certain, but I'd be surprised if Wine/CrossOver supported running any kind of Windows kernel driver, and TrueCrypt uses one for its main functionality on Windows.

Shades:
Honestly, Directory Opus is keeping me to Windows. If that piece of software goes well in CrossOver, I just might jump. Mainly because I am not impressed with Windows 7 from the beginning and recently 2008 R2. The general sentiment generated by the new ¨contenders¨ doesn´t inspire confidence with me, to be honest.

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Come on, a single core AMD 2003 Oracle 10g server with SATA2 HD can handle a bigger load of DB connections (and small read/writes) per second than an i7 2008 R2 Oracle 10g server with SATA3 HD. For a SOAP test generating/storing 5000 small XML messages per sec (multi-threaded) the 2008 R2 file system gave up after 2 hours. Litteraly severing the link between filesystem and hard disk. The server was telling me that it lost the hard disk, destroying a 300GByte database because Oracle was not able to write to some files for internal upkeep. A simple reboot was needed to gain access to the HD again and that drive checked out fine, so it was really the OS/filesystem that couldn´t keep up. CPU load on the i7 never went over 8%, so kudos to Intel  :up: AMD has nothing to b ashamed about either with a average load around 19%.

The 7 year old 2003 server fullfilled its role as backup as a true soldier and lasted the whole week needed for the test. Without a hitch. So I am inclined to agree with the statement from 40Hz about MS making decent servers.  :Thmbsup: But for me the ¨sweet spot¨ lies with their 2003 Server. 
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Edvard:
Thanks for the heads up, Mahesh2k!  :Thmbsup:
WAAAY cool, especially since my Lame Duck copy disappeared when I switched to Debian a couple years ago.
Yes, it works pretty good, much software that didn't run in Wine didn't run in Crossover either, but what did run, ran better and looked nicer (fonts in Wine are fuuuuuuugly).
FTR, I didn't notice any difference between the Game edition and Office edition except the splash screen.

erikts:
I hope CrossOver will help me run ..., TrueCrypt, ....
-erikts (October 29, 2012, 08:47 PM)
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TrueCrypt already has Linux support, which I suspect will run better than a Windows version under Wine/CrossOver.  I'm not certain, but I'd be surprised if Wine/CrossOver supported running any kind of Windows kernel driver, and TrueCrypt uses one for its main functionality on Windows.
-mwb1100 (October 29, 2012, 11:18 PM)
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Yes, I have checked that but I still have to learn about tar.gz and how to install software in Linux. :) In the mean time, I can continue working as if I were in Windows if crossover can help me run all needed software.

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