6 Sep
2008
6 Sep
'08
2:10 p.m.
-----Original Message-----
From: Chuck Guzis cclist at sydex.com
Sent 9/6/2008 4:55:19 PM
To: General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts cctalk at classiccmp.org
Subject: Re: OT: Linux and OpenOffice
Bottom line for me is that I need to run Windoze for my musical
notation editors (Finale and Sibelius). While it's true that a few
folks have gotten them running under Wine, performance is sub-Windows
(didn't think that was possible) with numerous gotchas that I don't
want to deal with.
Both Coda and Sibelius officially state "There are no plans to
produce Linux compatible versions of our products".
They're only locking themselves out, if there is a semi-comparable product.
I know it MAY have sounded like I was anti-Linux a week or two ago, but it's
quite the opposite. Right tool for the job...
I can't imagine that it's just the music people
who are alone in this
respect. While Linux does have some music notation utilities
(Rosegarden, NoteEdit, Lilypond), none of them have the polished
utility of Finale or Sibelius. I suspect that when you get in the
area of $500+ single-user license specialty software, Linux isn't an
option.
So I grit my teeth and deal with Microso~1. Or use my Mac.
And yes, this is vintage--people have wondered about this for more
than 10 years. Another shame is that Sibelius discontinued the
version of its software that ran on the Acorn. It used to be the
reason to buy an Acorn for many.
Acorn RiscOS machines?
I acquired a RiscPC 700 from a chap in Missouri - how he came to acquire it,
I have no idea. I found some links to wire in a PC power supply, and I yanked
one from one of those book pc's. This one even had an ethernet interface in it!
Very unique machine - I got through fleaBay a Strongarm 200mHz CPU board,
and the machine already had an HD and a CDROM. Also from the UK i got a
2nd "slice" to make it a double-decker, and a ROM+RiscOS upgrade.
I quickly lost interest in that, though.. but it was an interesting machine. I ended up
selling it on fleaBay for about $200 or so to someone here in the states.
I'm sure many others on the list as as I am - I like to acquire things, learn them,
and
then pass them on to someone else, and I've done that with SGI's, Sun's, HP
unix workstations, I had a DG with AOS on it (never learned THAT though) as well
as playing with Hercules IBM mainframe emulator for MVS 3.8 and VM/370 R6
Tony