Is linux an operating system? If so does it run all the microsoft office software?

5 Comments

1. kalai says:

   15. August 2011 at 05:13

   Install "wine" in any linux distribution. I will help u to install ".exe" files in linux….
2. l d says:

   15. August 2011 at 05:13

   When I go to http://www.linux.org, the very first line states that "Linux is a free Unix-type operating system originally created by Linus Torvalds …." and if I go to http://www.debian.org, they refer to Debian as being an operating system based on the Linux kernel. For the sake of simplicity, I will go with yes, linux is an operating system. Does it read Windoze partitions, yes it can. Does it run windoze programs without emulators or other tricks, no it does not. Is Windoze an operating system, yes it is. Can it read Linux partitions, not it can not (without 3rd party drivers). Can it run Linux programs, not without emulators or other tricks. Several people referred to WINE for running M$ Office. As I understand it, WINE may be able to run some versions of M$ Office, but it is not necessarily easy to set up, and it won’t run the program as well as Windoze, it it will run at all.

   A nice cross-platform solution is OpenOffice. It can read and write M$ Office files (doc, xls, ppt, etc.) and it will run on either Windoze or on Linux machines, and Mac as well I believe. I run it under both Windoze and Linux and swap files back and forth. It is also priced right – essentially free, as opposed to M$’s outrageous charge for Office. Check it out – http://www.openoffice.org
3. caincasteel says:

   15. August 2011 at 05:13

   It can run most install wine…
4. ♥α&ΗμτΘ&Η m!&Hrα♥ says:

   15. August 2011 at 05:13

   Linux is NOT an operating system. It is a kernel on which many operating systems are based upon. Such operating systems are called Linux distributions. Linux distributions like Ubuntu, Fedora, Linux Mint etc. are completely free and come inbuilt with the OpenOffice.org office suite which supports all Microsoft Office documents (you cannot run Microsoft Office on a Linux distribution, but you can create something similar with OpenOffice.org; the file that you create via OpenOffice.org will open in Windows computers having MS-Office).
   http://pctonic.blogspot.com/2007/11/linux-and-linux-distributions.html

   

   P.S. Wine is too weak and buggy to run Microsoft Office.
5. geniepiper says:

   15. August 2011 at 05:13

   Linux is an operating system. There are several versions. Right now Ubuntu at http://www.ubuntu.com/ seems to be the version getting the buzz. It is free and comes with its own software and there are linux versions of many popular programs. There is at least one free program that I know of called "wine" at http://www.ubuntu.com/ that is supposed to allow you to use windows programs on linux systems, but I have never used it.