There was an article on /. yesterday about this: http://slashdot.org/articles/01/08/28/1552247.shtml Ben Luey [lueyb at gridley.ACNS.Carleton.edu] wrote: > So I was at LinuxWorld Expo in SF today (live there when not at college), > and Codeweavers announced that they've finished the crossover plug-in. It > supposedly lets you run quicktime and shockwave / macromedia and ms word > /excel viewer and other windows netscape plugins in linux netscape (or > mozilla or konqueror, I think). Unforunately, the person at the booth > wasn't too tech savy and just showed a quicktime movie being played off > the hard drive (but not streamed). > > Anyone know much about how the crossover plugin works? It doesn't use > Wine, I'm told and it appears not to just run the quicktime player, but > embedd it somehow. How would you install quicktime with this plugin? If is > works well, I'll go grab it at $20 and have quicktime in linux! > > > also, IBM had a huge presence at LinuxWorld, as did Sun. StarOffice 6.0 > looks to be much better / faster than 5.2 with decent font and printing > and no desktop integration stuff. Corel was no where to be seen, but they > are trying to sell there Linux stuff, so.... Intel and Amd were out in > force also -- AMD touting there i86-64 specs which they made public two > years at ago the expo. > > Ben > > _______________________________________________ > tclug-list mailing list > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > https://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 232 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://shadowknight.real-time.com/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20010829/9d78c3eb/attachment.pgp