Re: Linux Expo

[Patrick Cox pdcox@xxxxxxxx]

Ten years ago, I think, the fellow who owned
the company XDOS, now defunct, that translated
DOS to Linux or Unix or both, I can't recall,
told me that he had done so with XyWrite. I'm
trying to track him down now -- though there
would still be licensing issues, I presume.

Patrick

Patricia M Godfrey wrote:
>
> Some items of possible interest to XyWriters at this year's Linux Expo:
> CodeWeavers (www.codeweavers.com) offers CrossOver Office, which lets one
> install MS Office directly on Linux; the brochure has the cryptic
> statement "CrossOver Office is capable of running a wide range of Windows
> software, but CodeWeavers supports the following applications," followed
> by a list of the componenets of MS Office 97 & 2000, plus Lotus Notes and
> Quicken. So whether XyWin or NBWin would run is a question.
> Acronis (www.acronis.com) offers partitioning (PartitionExpert 2003),
> boot manager (OS Selector8.0), and backup and restore (True Image 6.0) to
> all media (CD/RW, DVD, Zip, et al.). These support Linux's ReiserFS file
> system, which they claim is not elsewere supported.
> SuSE Linux (www.suse.com), one of the major Linux distributions (or
> "distros"; prepackaged set of Linux CDs with installer, tools, and
> applications) will be offering the latest version of OpenOffice, the
> freeware version of Sun's StarOffice; it can open Word files, and offers
> a spreadsheet and presentation package. (OpenOffice wasn't ready for
> release at the show, to a lot of people's disappointment.)
> The Bulletin of the Free Software Foundation (www.fsf.org) has
> some hair-raising news about MicroSquelch's nefarious doings. A piece by
> founder Richard M. Stallman dissects the Micro$oft-Intel "trusted
> computing" initiative, which makes Big Brother look like a truly
> benevolent despot by comparison. According to Stallman, under this
> scheme, "the computer includes a digital encryption and signature device,
> and the keys are kept secret from you," the end user. "Proprietary
> programs will use this device to control which other programs you can
> run, which documents or data you can access, and what programs you can
> pass them to." It sounds like a paranoic's nightmare, but..."
> Several people I spoke to thought that XyWrite would not need much
> rewriting, since it is written in Assembler, to be ported to Linux, but
> of course the problem is finding a developer that would be interested,
> and then the developer's finding the owner of record and getting
> permission.
> Patricia