Multitool Linux: Practical Uses for Open Source Software

MS Word 97 via Wine

Again, this is just as simple as changing directories to your mounted Windows drive, changing into program files, then Microsoft Office, then Office, and running

wine -managed winword.exe

As we can see in Figure 17-5 , it loads and runs just fine.

Figure 17-5. MS Word on Linux.

But check out the word it doesn't recognize in the spellcheck ( Figure 17-6 ): Linux. In 1998 it still didn't recognize Linux. But it did recognize Bill Gates. Hmm.

Figure 17-6. MS Word spellchecking.