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The tempurture today was in the high 90's and no AC in the office. Arrgh!

Clean Sweep

6.2 is installed, tomorrow I will be focusing on getting WINE installed and Frontier copied over.

Well, I went to install the Red Hat 6.2 and both the floppy drive and CD-ROM drive were shot. The spindle motor on the CD-ROM was burned out and the heads on the floppy drive were damaged. A quick run to CompUSA and the machine is working and the install is proceeding.

Now that I got Samba working, and pulled off some config files I am ready to wipe my Linux machine clean...

I am going to install Red Hat version 6.2 then do a clean WINE installation. Then the real fun will finally begin.

Your Input

If you have any suggestions for the Frontier for Linux please feel free to post them here. Also and hints, tips, tricks, or other pointers you might think useful.

Good luck with your port of Frontier to Linux! I think your use of Wine will certainly ease the task.

Another tool that I'm going to be watching is BlueBox, from www.dloo.com. Directly or indirectly, this is going to play a role in the future of cross-platform applications. There's more information in last week's Gnotice: http://news.gnome.org/gnome-news/960578167/index_html. If I understand correctly, the alpha release is scheduled for next week.

Regards,

-james.

BTW, I see you're referring to Wine in all-caps, but the project maintainers only capitalize the W.

P.S. I suppose you may already know about BlueBox, since it's based on XML and currently uses SOAP.