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It's possible. Yes, it is!

NOTE: this guide is for education purposes only, not promoting for illegal actions

Requirements:
1. Crossover Linux Professional 7.0: get it here: Download

2. Installation package for Ms Office 2007.

How-to:

1. From menu, choose CrossOver -> Install Windows Software. Pick Microsoft Office 2007, locate the setup.exe file, then install it as in Windows.

2. After all installation done, we need to crack it though.
a. Get this file: Proof.XML
b. Replace the old one located under:

/home/[YOUR_USER_NAME]/.cxoffice/MSOffice/drive_c/Program Files/Common Files/Microsoft Shared/OFFICE12/Office Setup Controller/Proof.en

c. From CrossOver menu -> Run a Windows Command, type: regedit
d. Find the key: HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Office\12.0\Registration\DigitalProductID, and delete it.
e. Close all CrossOver-related program.
d. Under main menu: Applications, you can see Windows Application menu, and enjoy !


Enjoy !

Menu Preferences | Appearances

• Theme | Customize
1. Controls | Is Ora Smooth
2. Window Border | evil_mac - Download
   
3. Icons | Ultimate Gnome - Download
   
4. Pointer | Wonderland
• Fonts
1. Application Font | Segoe UI | 11
2. Document Font | Segoe UI | 11
3. Desktop Font | Trebuchet MS Bold | 9
4. Window Title Font | Segoe UI | 11
5. Fixed Width Font | Monospace | 10
6. Rendering | Best Shapes
7. Details | Resolution
• Resolution | 75 dots per inch
• Smoothing | Grayscale
• Hinting | Medium
• Subpixel Order | RGB
• Background - Download Corlorful Pack
  

Programming .NET is one of the first thing I've learned myself long ago, but only available in Windows Operating System.
Somehow, the Mono Project has made .NET Framework become a cross-platform environment that you can freely programming .NET for Windows, Linux, MacOS...in that system directly. Also, you can write a .NET program for Linux under Windows and vice-versa. It's really a great achievement that Mono Project has reached. I expect that Mono Project will achieve more impressive goals with .NET technology in the future as it develops.
I write this guide as a journal in programming .NET under Linux environment by using Mono Project.
You may take this as a reference for Gtk#.

1 - Documentation and Reference:
Here the list that I read and reference from:
Gtk# Tutorial Page by Mono
Mono Documentation Library (equivalent to MSDN)
Mono: A Developer's Notebook (Edd Dumbill, Niel M. Bornstein) - A great book, worth to buy for two reasons:
+ It's the only book on Mono up to this time.
+ It's written as a developer's journal style, so it's really easy to catch the authors' mind concepts.

2 - Programming Gtk# Journal

Lesson 1: Say Hello
Lesson 2: Hello Gtk# (using Form)
Lesson 3: MonoDevelop IDE vs. manual text coding w/ commands. (to be updated...)


Feel free to comment!
Have fun!

Download Project

We do the same thing with Lesson 1 but this time we use form for better GUI.
This is the source code, self-explained fully-commented.

using System;
using Gtk;

public class Lesson_2
{

 public static void Main() {
  
  Application.Init();
  
  // create a window
  Window window = new Window("Lesson 2: Say hello with Gtk# Form");
  window.Resize(400, 40);
  
  // create a label
  Label label = new Label("Hello Gtk# .NET");
  // add label to the form
  window.Add(label);
  // show form and its widgets
  window.ShowAll();
  
  Application.Run();
 }
}

Build and run, this is result:


Have fun!

Download Project: Lesson 1 - Say Hello Gtk#

First, open MonoDevelop and create a new empty project. Then, add an empty class file into project. Copy this code below to the file:

using System;

public class Lesson_1 {

public static void Main() {
Console.WriteLine("Lesson 1: Hello Gtk#! It's so wonderful!");
}
}

If you already know C#, you, hence, know what it means.

Now click on the menu Build -> Build Solution or F8.
Click menu Run -> Run or Ctrl+F5.
You will have result like this:

The result is shown under the Application Output textbox.

However, if you want to compile a single C# file or a C# project manually, then do this.

Open the terminal:

terminal> mcs -pkg:gtk-sharp-2.0 Main.cs

A file named Main.exe will be generated. In order to run this file you have to use mono utility:

terminal> mono Main.exe

The result will show up exactly how it is while using MonoDevelop.

Have fun!

Use xrandr utility to change the screen resolution.
Example, if I want to change my screen resolution into 1280x800 (60 Hz) I will type

terminal> xrandr -s 1280x800

Have fun!

Have you ever tried to mount ISO or any Image Files in Linux before? Give it a try, know more tricks of using Linux with me .

1. Open shell / terminal under `root`.

2. Create a mount folder first
root ~ ] $ mkdir /mnt/diskiso
note: diskiso is the name of folder you want to name.

3. Start to mount iso to that folder
root ~ ] $ mount -o loop disk.iso /mnt/diskiso

Well done!
Enjoy your mounted virtual disk...

Have fun!@