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rsvirani
September 27th, 2005, 06:01 PM
Has anyone tried to run Dreamweaver 8 or Flash 8 under some windows emulator like WINE in Ubuntu? I need to get some kind of windows emulator to run at minimum Flash, I can transition from Dreamweaver to Nvu or just ditch it and use gedit. But Flash on the other hand is unavoidable. I have read that Flash MX can run under something like Crossover or WINE but that's old. I need at least MX 2004 if not Flash 8. Anyone try these out? Anyone have suggestions as to which windows emulator is best?
mlomker
September 27th, 2005, 06:49 PM
Crossover and Wine are the same thing. The only difference is that they charge a couple bucks for Crossover and it's easier to set up. If you need the latest-and-greatest stuff to run then you might want to look into an operating system emulator like Qemu and VMWare.

I'm personally a VMWare fanboy, but it isn't cheap.
David Marrs
September 28th, 2005, 10:01 AM
You may also want to consider an open-source flash mx alternative. There is a list (http://osflash.org/doku.php?id=open_source_flash_projects&DokuWiki=39409467000d6863747453a55a3a59ef)of open source projects at http://osflash.org/ . Out of those, Flash4Linux (http://f4l.sourceforge.net/) and Open Laszlo (http://www.openlaszlo.org/) caught my eye.
rsvirani
September 28th, 2005, 12:20 PM
Thanks guys.
rsvirani
September 28th, 2005, 12:20 PM
How do you install VMware if you have the tar?
mlomker
September 28th, 2005, 12:33 PM
How do you install VMware if you have the tar?

It can take a little work to get it going. Start here (http://http://www.ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=65638&) with the instructions for Breezy and let me know if have trouble. The steps for Hoary are very similar, but you don't have to worry about the GCC stuff.