hey pezzer55,

vmware 4.5.1 is out now, and supports 2.6x kernels, and 4gb RAM. i haven't even installed it yet myself, but i have vmware workstation 4.0 installed, and it is very impressive. i currently have dos, win98, NT351, NT40, 2k, and XP installed. if you have to do any cross-platform testing you really owe it to yourself to download the linux version.

i downloaded it because as i mentioned above, we need to run our win32 accounting app for one more year while we switch over to the opensource "sql ledger." we are keeping two identical sets of books, one on each app, and using vmware for the win32 app (under the win2k virtual machine - other installations were really just for fun/play, and to test stability under various settings).

good luck.

ps they will email a 30day serial number so you can try the fully functional system. if you decide to buy it, there are student discounts etc to help get the price closer to $100.00.

I didn't see whather or anyone else outran me to this one, but I can rattle two alturnatives off the top of my head: VM-Ware and Bochs. A friend of mine, who is also the network admin and an instructor at a college I went to loves VM-Ware because he can run Win2000 server and workstation on one machine, with a virtual LAN in between them. He does that to show off how to manage Win2000 machines from a Win2000 server platform, and how changes on one machine affect the entire network. Neither of us has tried Bochs, but I bet it's also good too.

ps: that last post about VM-Ware was placed while I was posting this one.

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Maybe this is already among the 677 replies, but I venture this anyway. What the end user cares most about is continuation. Those beyond web-browsing, email, docs and spreadsheets probably run an application on a win client due to the interface. Porting this to java or providing a coexisting version will ease the transit and mask the move totally. Yes I know it is never that simple but phase 1, use current app on Java and phase 2, switch the platform to linux is in my mind the best way.
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The program that we need most on windows is of course the revolutionary piece of software - Notepad. LOL

Nr one "missing link" is a program that makes it possible to have video and voice chats like the many clients in Windows and with windows users. We can chat with Gaim but not yet with video cam or voice with yahoo, ICQ, etc. users. That is a big lag behind. No Linux in internet cafe's that way and also at home it is just disturbing that this option is lacking. Gnome meeting doesn't have it either. It is rather useless for chats with the windows world out there. So please someone port these nice programs like yahoo/ICQ/MSN/ messenger to Linux asap! What we got now is just not good enough.

Quicken. Moneydance is good by it is not Quicken.

Virtualdub which is already open source but for Windows. In my opinion, It's one of the best (if not THE best) utilities for working with .AVI files. It doesn't have a lot of the useless flashy GUIs that a lot of other programs for Windows do, and it just works! If anyone here uses Windows at all and does video editing, chances are you've used it already. If not, you really should! I've heard some people breathe that they've gotten virtualdub to work via WINE, but I haven't tried. I think this would be a useful program to port to Linux....

..along with:

TMPGEnc, but I think this is closed source. I wish there was a port of this program for Linux as well. It's an awesome program for converting .AVI files to MPG and it works very, very well.

WINRAR

Alchol 100%

CloneCD

EazyVCD.tk

I would like to see Intuit's Quickbooks Pro ported to LInux, I am running Quickbooks on my office computers, and I would like to change them to Linux too. The constant cleaning and polishing of windows and all the other support software is really getting to be too much., not to mention the drain on the pocketbook for all the yearly "fees".

Hey furfurdemon666 have you tried Avidemux? I gave up on Virtualdub when I found Avidemux. Does everything Virtualdub can do and even more.

I use Kedit, and for *.txt files it does a great job.. That replaces notepad 100%

Then again I am sure you were be sarcastic... but if you were not Kedit is the way to go...

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PageMaker?
OpenOffice has very good page-layout features, but, they are not ideal. PageMaker isn't ideal either, though.

Quicken and TurboTax are the only must-have's for me. I realize that I can run them both under CrossOver Office, but I'd much rather have them in native form. And I don't like to depend on a product that may not be there next year.