[scribus] New Linux User -- Scribus in place of PageMaker 6?

[Steve]

On Sun, 10 Aug 2008 02:42:33 +0100
John Beardmore <John at T4sLtd.co.uk> wrote:

> Steve wrote:
> > On Sun, 10 Aug 2008 01:33:52 +0100
> > John Beardmore <John at T4sLtd.co.uk> wrote:
> 
> >>> What I'm looking for is an alternative to Windows that I can work
> >>> with. PM6 might run under WINE just fine,  
> >> Interesting thought. Does anybody know if it does ?
> > 
> > I consult for a weekly newspaper that wants to move to Linux, but
> > can't give up PM6 (they hate PM7). I tried PM6 under Wine about a
> > year ago but it wasn't especially stable. Recently I put VirtualBox
> > with Win2000 on one of their Linux machines and installed PM6 into
> > that. This works perfectly. It also makes for a simple work flow.
> > They love it. I'll be setting up all their machines with this
> > configuration in the next couple of months.
> 
> Cool.  Is this VM Ware or another solution ?
> 
> 
> Cheers, J/.

Another (but very similar) solution. See http://www.virtualbox.org/.
It's open source, so on my Debian boxes it's just "apt-get install
virtualbox".

Regards,

Steve

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Steve Jacobs
Trinidad Graphics
www.trinidadcolorado.net
Trinidad, CO US