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| marianoi |
Posted - 10/05/2005 : 4:33:12 PM
Hello everyone,
My name is Mariano, I am finishing my PhD studies at The Ohio State University and, as you can imagine, I depend on OriginPro for my charts and data analysis! Therefore, I also depend on Windows for finishing my thesis.
I am new to Linux, but I rapidly found its great advantages upon WinXP. However, I cannot totally switch operative systems because of Origin (EndNote and photoshop). I know there are some alternatives out there but nothing is as good as such applications.
I am convinced there should be no reason for the “scientific” community not changing to Linux; it is a non-sense…except we still depend on some trade mark applications that ONLY run well enough on Win.
I am writing this because I still don’t get why OriginLab doesn’t produce a multi-platform OriginPro. They may say it is because mostly all their users run Win, but I’d rather say most of OriginLab users HAVE TO RUN Win because they do not sell a Linux package! Look at Matlab or Wolfram Mathematica, they are multiplataform.
The question for OringinLab people: When a Origin for Linux???
Cheers
Mariano
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| burnus |
Posted - 10/10/2005 : 12:43:20 PM
Hello everyone, hello Mariano,
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My name is Mariano, I am finishing my PhD studies at The Ohio State University and, as you can imagine, I depend on OriginPro for my charts and data analysis! Therefore, I also depend on Windows for finishing my thesis.
Note that you can already use Wine, http://www.winehq.org, or (easier to use) CrossOver Office, http://www.codeweavers.com to run Origin under Linux. (CrossOver is based on Wine and a bit easier to use. Wine is free, CrossOver costs some $$; CodeWeavers feed all paches back to Wine.) Wine "emulates" Windows by reimplementing the Windows API.
I use CrossOver Office 5.0pre here with Origin 6 and Origin 7.5, which works fairly well.
Issues:
- Online help does not work (out of the box)
- Origin 6: With Wine (and older CXO) I had the problem that I couldn't save the projects, with current CXO 5 I have no problem. (Note: I didn't tried with recent Wine.)
- Origin 7.5: Some dialogs don't work such as "Import Assistant" or "Diagram setup".
Otherwise I'm quite happy with it.
I would also like to see OriginLab to improve the Linux support either:
- Native port (surely very expensive and lot of work)
- Winelib port (= link to the Wine libraries, this makes a kind of Linux program out of it, which works on all kinds of processors)
- Get it work with Wine flawlessly
The cheapest and thus most feasable way would be to improve Wine to run flawlessly Origin 7.5. This would mean either some Wine coding by OriginLab or to pay someone (e.g. CodeWeavers) to do so.
If one restrics oneself to the most annoying bugs, this won't cost that much.
Tobias,
who has no Windows available and happily runs Origin 7.5 on SUSE Linux 10.0.
PS: Wine makes slowly progress so that the support of Origin should slowly improve, even without the much-wished support of OriginLab. As I do run nightly regression tests, I should be able to catch Wine regressions, which prevent the installation or start of Origin 6 and 7.5. |
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