Hi everyone, I am running happly and greatfully RedHat Redhat 7.0 with a dual boot of Windows 98 SE. I am sick of windows and am wondering is there a way to make windows (or just) Office 2000 on Linux? Is there some sort of emulater avilable? Device driver? Something? Thank you all :-) Alexander

Oh yes...Don't walk, run on over to codeweavers and pay the $55 for their "crossover office". I am running Office 2000 on my laptop under Redhat 7.2 and it works great. The installation is a breeze. Word is the only thing I use, but I know some of the other apps are a little buggy (with improvements to come). Note that only Office 95 and 2000 are supported, not XP. Their site is www.codeweavers.com

DON'T DO IT!!!!! Alexander, Before you go off and pay to use Office on Linux you should really look at some of the products available on linux. OpenOffice.org just released v1.0 of their open office suite. (based on StarOffice6) I assure you, it can do practically everything that MS Office can do, and it can also read and write MS files. Best of all, it is open and free. Check it out! It is a much better alternative... Well, maybe it should be said that MS Office is a much worse alternative! PhilD link - www.openoffice.org

PhilD was right. Go and download a copy of OpenOffice 1.0 (~67 MB) yourself... As far as I can tell, it reads and saves document (or spreadsheet) in MS Word (Excel) without problem. I use it under Linux to type up a lab manual and save it as Word because my colleague uses Windows 98 with Word 2000. He doesn't have any trouble openning it at all with Word 2000. Lawrence

I'm as hardcore linux as they come, but I'll be the first to tell you that OpenOffice is a fine suite for complex standalone application or SIMPLE file conversions. If you are exchanging docs in a *professional* setting, OpenOffice will not work. Trust me. Try opening a timed presentation, or a template with scripts. It won't work. If you are interacting with office users beyond a simple MSFormatted text doc, then get Crossover. OpenOffice is just frustrating.

star office is also there in linux which you can freely dowload. wordprocessor, spread sheet etc (like msoffice) are there in this. you can read msoffice documents using this