[shorty_harris]

I suspect many of us who’ve tried Linux have Windows based applications they missed GREATLY. I went through the throws of trying to run Windows apps in Linux. Simple apps worked alright. But others were a pain or didn’t work.

Here's what I did: I've been running cross platform applications for some time now on the old Windows 2000 machine (OpenOffice, Firefox, Thunderbird, etc.). Just last week the thing finally died. I swapped in a machine I'd previously set up running PCLinuxOS (I've never liked Ubuntu), running the same apps. The family barely noticed the change.

[bcsco]

I swapped in a machine I'd previously set up running PCLinuxOS (I've never liked Ubuntu), running the same apps. The family barely noticed the change.

Is this PC connected to a peer network? Is it connected to a PC with XP Home Edition? If so, how serious was getting the PC's to handshake?

I'll look into PCLinuxOS. But would appreciate any input you have on the above, if possible.