[A CA Guy]

Question:
I just picked up a computer for fun to back up my system at FRYS. 800MHZ with Linux already on board.
Can that operating system handle most windows programs and devices?
Could I run Office 2000 and add my cd-rw hardware and run it's software? In general.

[krb]

You mean you want to install windows on it and run those things, or you want to know if those windows programs will run under the Linux you got pre-installed?

[rdb3]

Could I run Office 2000 and add my cd-rw hardware and run it's software? In general.

To do this, you are going to need the CrossOver plugin found here.

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[B Knotts]

There is a semi-proprietary product based on WINE called CrossOver Office that lets you run Microsoft Office.

Otherwise, there is a limited set of Windows applications that will run under WINE. You can check out the status for many applications here.

Linux, using WINE, is not really a satisfactory platform for running Windows applications, though. If you do it occasionallly, you might find it tolerable, but the best programs to run on Linux are Linux programs.