Terry,
Just checking applications for folks making the transistion.
Looking for apps/? that provide/emulate "ms windows" on Linux.
There is also Boch's which could loosely be described as a freeware version of VMWare. Not quite true as Bochs is an emulator that produces an x86 instruction set on any hardware platform where as VMWare is a pass through and thus will only work on x86.
Haven't checked on Boch's progress for a few months but it had made some big strides when I last looked. Major issue was that it's screen resolution wasn't suitable yet for the applications.
I've been watching wine for years and I feel that it's just never going to make it. At one stage I managed to get Word and Excel working under it but then they changed to the new system with the dosdevices directory and I haven't been able to get them working since. Also even though Excel was "working" I couldn't get the Visual basic stuff to work, which is the only reason I'd use Excel, to deal with a spread sheet with a VB macro in it. However I hear that codeweavers cross-over office seems to be more reliable (don't know what the codeweavers secret is as it's based on wine).
I use VMWare, I'm running an old version (2.0) on FC2. I had to hack the vmware-config.pl but otherwise it works great, don't need the bells and whistles of the latest versions. I just use it like it's a Linux application, open and close it using suspend to disk just for those annoying bit's that I just can't get a Linux equivelent to (like Excel spread sheets with VB macro's [EMAIL PROTECTED](*&$*(&!~)
HTH
P.
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