If running windows applications out the box is important I think Xandros
(http://www.xandros.com/index.html) would be the best distro. I believe
that xandros comes with cross over office (the easy way to wine). There
should be a list of M$ apps that work and don't work listed there.
(course vmware is *much* better). 

Carl P. 

On Sat, 2003-04-05 at 09:11, Kyle Faber wrote:
> On Saturday 05 April 2003 06:44 am, Ed Skinner wrote:
> >      My guess is you will want to have (or develop, or hire/contract) a
> > fair bit of expertise with WINE regardless of what Lindows (or RedHat, for
> > that matter) does. And even with that, you'll want to set the expectations
> > of others carefully. There will be those for whom a Microsoft Operating
> > System will remain as the best choice.
> 
> 	My expectation is that I will probably have two or three engineers fire up a 
> vmware instalation the two times per week that they need to design or review 
> a few parts.
> 
> 	Why vmware?  $300 per chair is cheap compared to the rest of the applications 
> I can supply for free on their primary Linux desktop, as well as the 
> inconvienece of rebooting.  That and vmware can be a memory hog.  Its not 
> something you want to leave open all the time, thus eliminating the 
> "omni-present freeware" installs that happen fairly regularly on win32 
> platforms.  It will be awhile before those programs migrate to Linux.
> 
> 	Most like Linux already, (though they can't be converted until the major 
> database is no longer an access database in june) and there is actually some 
> level of fascination with non-windows platform.
> 
> 	We'll see.  Though if it isn't packing a BIG WINE punch, it looks like I may 
> be crossing Lindows off my list for the time being.
> 
> Kyle Faber
> EMR Internet.com
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