I'm forwarding the comments below from a serious Linux user.
I believe you still need a WindowsXP license to run a WindowsXP VM.
So Wine may be worth trying.
Thanks,
Bill Brake
-------- Original Message --------
Subject: Re: Fwd: [RBASE-L] - Rbase on UBUNTU
Date: Thu, 28 Apr 2011 09:27:37 -0400
From: Cliff Brake <[email protected]>
Organization: BEC Systems
To: [email protected]
Dad,
I used to use Wine to run turbotax, and some other things. Lately, I
simply run a WindowsXP VM on my Linux box for stuff like that, plus I
now have a dedicated windows box in my office, so I rarely even try wine
any more.
Wine works surprisingly well. As an example, Google Picassa for Linux
uses wine, but they do all the integration and make sure it works well.
With Wine, there are typically a few little glitches, so you just have
to try it and see.
The following page might get you going:
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Wine
Cliff
On Thursday 28 April 2011 08:56:31 William Brake wrote:
> Cliff:
> Do you use Wine to run any apps?
> Is it easy to install?
> I would be interested in trying it on AutoCAD and RBase.
> thanks, Dad
>
> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject: [RBASE-L] - Rbase on UBUNTU
> Date: Wed, 27 Apr 2011 12:14:13 -0400
> From: Thomas Cimicato <[email protected]>
> Reply-To: [email protected]
> To: [email protected] (RBASE-L Mailing List)
>
>
>
> Does anybody have any experience or advice on running Rbase 9.x (32 or
> 64) on UBUNTU with WINE? I am always glad to pay Rbase for seat licenses
> but not so glad to pay Microsoft for desktops.
>
> Thom
