[MarkL]

Have you tried running VMWare, rather than WINE? Granted, it requires more RAM and system resources, but I've yet to find a software package that doesn't run on it. Of course, I haven't tried using a graphics package like Photoshop, or 3D Games, but I regularly run server operating systems in virtual machines (Windows Server 2003 and Novell NetWare 6.5).

You can download the server product for free, or download a demo copy of VMWare Workstation (not a free product) from the VMWare web site.

Mark

[bcsco]

My online inquiries indicated Wine was simply a free version of VMWare, but that VMWare would properly install more applications. I believe it was VMWare that had approved installs of Quicken.

I’m waiting until after the holidays. Then I’ll buy a partition manager to change my partition sizes, and begin looking at some of these applications. Right now, my Linux partition is quite small (7.4GbZ) so I don’t want to go too far in installing stuff.

I like Linux. It’s a lot faster than XP. I’m just taking my time :)