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ing on these formats, only the ones found in OpenOffice.org are functional enough for daily<br />

use.<br />

THE BROADER VIEW<br />

Libre Office replaces<br />

OpenOffice.org<br />

OpenOffice.org contributors have set up a foundation (The Document Foundation)<br />

to foster project development. The idea had been discussed for some<br />

time, but the actual trigger was Oracle's acquisition of Sun. The new ownership<br />

made the future of OpenOffice under Oracle uncertain. Since Oracle<br />

declined to join the foundation, the developers had to give up on the OpenOffice.org<br />

name. The soware is now known as Libre Office.<br />

These changes occurred aer Debian Squeeze was frozen, which explains why<br />

the repositories still contain OpenOffice.org… but Libre Office is already available<br />

in the backports.debian.org package repository, as well as in more recent<br />

versions of Debian.<br />

OpenOffice.org, KOffice and GNOME Office are, respectively, available in the openoffice.org, koffice<br />

and gnome-office Debian packages. Language-specific packs for OpenOffice.org are distributed<br />

in separate packages: openoffice.org-l10n-*, openoffice.org-help-*, and openoffice.org-spellcheck-*<br />

(which can be a virtual package provided by myspell-*).<br />

13.5. Emulating Windows: Wine<br />

In spite of all the previously mentioned efforts, there are still a number of tools without a Linux<br />

equivalent, or for which the original version is absolutely required. This is where Windows<br />

emulation systems come in handy. The most well-known among them is Wine.<br />

➨ http://www.winehq.com/<br />

COMPLEMENTS<br />

CrossOver Linux<br />

CrossOver, produced by CodeWeavers, is a set of enhancements to Wine that<br />

broaden the available set of emulated features to a point at which Microso<br />

Office becomes fully usable. Some of the enhancements are periodically<br />

merged into Wine.<br />

➨ http://www.codeweavers.com/products/<br />

However, one should keep in mind that it's only a solution among others, and the problem<br />

can also be tackled with a virtual machine or VNC; both of these solutions are detailed in the<br />

sidebars.<br />

Let us start with a reminder: emulation allows executing a program (developed for a target<br />

system) on a different host system. The emulation software uses the host system, where the<br />

application runs, to imitate the required features of the target system.<br />

The simplest way of using Wine is with an instance of Microsoft Windows already installed on an<br />

existing partition (which will be the case on machines dual-booting with this system). When no<br />

installed Windows version is available, Wine works in a less complete way, and fewer programs<br />

will be able to run.<br />

Chapter 13 — Workstation<br />

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