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VirtualBox Users?

  • 01-04-2009 12:12AM
    #1
    Cantab.
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,444 ✭✭✭


    I got an important .docx today (yes, I know) and was forced to use Windoze.

    I installed virtualbox, thinking "ok, this will do, will be a bit awkward, but should do the job", but I've finished today and I'm actually amazed at how seamless the virtual machine is!

    Top class piece of software.


Comments

  • #2
    djmarkus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,606 ✭✭✭djmarkus


    Yup, its one of my favourate pieces of software, up there with samba and firefox. Was a bit pissed off when Sun took over, not sure why.

    But... Openoffice 3.0 can open docx's?


  • #3
    Cantab.
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,444 ✭✭✭Cantab.


    djmarkus wrote: »
    Yup, its one of my favourate pieces of software, up there with samba and firefox. Was a bit pissed off when Sun took over, not sure why.

    But... Openoffice 3.0 can open docx's?

    I know...

    But what do you do if someone copy and pastes your perfectly formatted latex document and plonks in their own M$ Word comments?

    Some people are so inconsiderate.

    .docx is horrible.


  • #4
    Orion
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,807 ✭✭✭✭Orion


    I use XP in a Virtualbox VM for remote access to work. It's excellent. But I wouldn't go to all that trouble to open a docx document when OO.o can do it. It imports comments too afaik.


  • #5
    aidan_walsh
    Closed Accounts Posts: 17,208 ✭✭✭✭aidan_walsh


    Took a bit of a while to get the repo working on my server, meaning I had to recompile the kernel driver each time there was a new release, but other than that (one small script later) I've been pretty happy with it.


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