How much can you do without native windows?

[Simon Taylor]

Julian,

> I suppose the main thing that stops me ditching windows completely is my
> children not being able to run their various games and educational software
> (e. g. Dorling Kindersley CDROMs "Eyewitness Encyclopedia of Science",
> "Eyewitness History of the World" etc.).

I've found wine to be a great help for these very type of applications, see 
the following note, for example:

http://www.winecentric.com/wiki/index.php?Jacaranda%20Atlas%20Mapping%20Skills%20v2

My children run the applications on RedHat 7.2 with no Windows DLL's installed 
by me, (ie: apart from any that are installed by the programs' own 
installation process). Generally, the results are great.

I plan to submit some of these apps to the codeweavers application database 
shortly.

Regards,

Simon Taylor

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