I find the software available at http://portableapps.com/ very helpful, in that they don't write to the windows registry....I carry the entire suite, plus others on a USB drive and would be ery happy if I could incorporate them in the Puppy LiveCD I use.Bruce B wrote: What Windows applications do you want to run?
What Windows applications do want?
Re: What Windows applications do want?
Sure...take keepass...last time I tried to install it there were missing libraries...and the link in the forum to get the libraries was broken.Volsung wrote:All linux apps are "portable" b/c there is no registry. Most of the apps available there have linux versions.
Perhaps installing Wine would work...
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I was going to mention before that there are more than one level of "portable". Statically compiled apps, for example, tend to be much more portable than dynamically. They're also a good bit bigger, especially if you have more than one that could be sharing a library.All linux apps are "portable" b/c there is no registry
Then there's the issue of paths. Dynamically compiled apps expect the libraries to be in the path (usually /lib, /usr/lib, /usr/local/lib, and /usr/X11R7/lib). For generic system libraries that's fine, but it usually includes their own libraries too. So if you want to use them in a system that doesn't already have the libraries installed, but you don't want to "dirty" that system by putting the libraries in it's filesystem, you need to write a "wrapper" script that adds those libraries to the LD_LIBRARY_PATH environment variable before running the program (which won't affect any apps not run from either that script or anything it launches).
Some apps, like Firefox and Thunderbird, include the libraries and binaries in a separate firefox/ or thunderbird/ directory, so that the above isn't an issue. But that's not very different from statically compiling them, because they can't share the libraries (unless you tear them out and replace them with symlinks, which may or may not work...).
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What Windows applications do want?
The first time I posted in the forum I said I wished to get ZoneMinder to work with Puppy.
That wish was subsequently granted in the form of Watchdog. (ZM was already a Linux prog).
Seeing as there is now a Windows wish list, I wish I could get TopOCR as a Linux native.
I am using it extensively for reading-aloud large PDF-image files, after mogrifying the images
with ImageMagick (in Linux, of course).
Actually, Windoze is not a bad program when it is run in VirtualBox under Puppy, and it cant
get control over the hard disk, and you dont use it on the net, and you replace all its apps, and..
TopOCR is a brilliant free prog which will let you use the cam in your mobile phone as the image
source (as well as a scanner), does OCR on-the-fly, and reads it out to you.
http://www.topocr.com/
That wish was subsequently granted in the form of Watchdog. (ZM was already a Linux prog).
Seeing as there is now a Windows wish list, I wish I could get TopOCR as a Linux native.
I am using it extensively for reading-aloud large PDF-image files, after mogrifying the images
with ImageMagick (in Linux, of course).
Actually, Windoze is not a bad program when it is run in VirtualBox under Puppy, and it cant
get control over the hard disk, and you dont use it on the net, and you replace all its apps, and..
TopOCR is a brilliant free prog which will let you use the cam in your mobile phone as the image
source (as well as a scanner), does OCR on-the-fly, and reads it out to you.
http://www.topocr.com/