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Subject:    Re: [Quanta] Quanta+ on Windows
From:       Sasha Andric <sasha () goldnet ! ca>
Date:       2009-06-27 21:33:24
Message-ID: 200906271833.24516.sasha () goldnet ! ca
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On June 27, 2009 06:25:06 pm Michael J. Hartwick wrote:
> On Mon, 15 Jun 2009 at 15:51 (+0200), Gabriele Brosulo wrote:
>
> GB> I'm wondering if it's possible to run Quanta+ on windows. I use it
> GB> for my everyday work on a linux box, but for some reason I have to
> GB> work also on a windows machine.
> GB>
> GB> I've already installed KDE on windows (http://windows.kde.org/),
> GB> but I can't play whith Quanta+ :(
> GB>
> GB> Any hints? Or it's just impossible?
>
> I ran into the same problem an have found, for me at least, a
> solution. I created a VMWare image running Ubuntu with Quanta+, even
> managed to get cervisa to work as an addon. Have some MySQL tools as
> well. My laptop is Windows and it needs to stay that way for numerous
> reasons, but the VMWare image allows me to run Quanta+ on a Windows
> machine. Not exactly native, but good enough for my needs. Once it is
> made it runs quite happily under VMWare Player which is a free
> download. Also have Firefox installed in it and I think I have Firebug
> etc installed (not positive if I finished that part).
>
> Michael

Just a note that there is free WMWare alternative out there:
http://www.virtualbox.org/

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