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Originally Posted by digby dart
"Think of Wine as a compatibility layer for running Windows programs. Wine does not require Microsoft Windows, as it is a completely free alternative implementation of the Windows API consisting of 100% non-Microsoft code, however Wine can optionally use native Windows DLLs if they are available. Wine provides both a development toolkit for porting Windows source code to Unix as well as a program loader, allowing many unmodified Windows programs to run on x86-based Unixes, including Linux, FreeBSD, Mac OS X, and Solaris." source http://www.winehq.org/
Codeweaver CrossOver is an enhanced version. http://www.codeweavers.com/products/cxoffice/
This German fellow has successfully run Google Sketchup on Linux. http://aksels.de/software.php#sketch
Some have even run PalmOS emulators on Linux.
If all else fails... run xp.  |
Agreed - as long as this lappy's distro comes with a decent implementation of Wine. I gave an affirmative discussion on the merits of Wine in another post here a little while back - and even run Photoshop & InDesign successfully on my RH8 box at home.