Neal How do you like the look and feel of RH 8.0? I really find it great as a desktop application. The Ximian mail application works better than K-mail or even MS. I know Crossover and VMware have great features allowing the convergence of MS and RH.
Dan On Sun, 2002-10-20 at 12:11, Neal & Gay Timon wrote: > > I have a peer to peer windows network at my dental office. It seems to > gradually operate slower and slower unless I shut the system down and > reboot. The proprietary dental software I use mandates a Windows > environment (I think) and I hate the problems of computers freezing, > losing the data base, etc. I understand using Linux in the background may > be an answer. I have bought Red Hat 8.0, installed it at home and will play > with it today to try and share a wireless network with my neighbor. I want > help with the office project if it is feasible and will be beneficial. > +++ Question: Running VMware or Crossover would still require you to run an instance of MS windows right (guest OS)? So that being the case, the Linux box is running an app Vmware which uses an instance or guest OS of MS windows to run that MS dental app on your Linux box. Now if you were looking to switch to Linux to get-away from the problems of MS, this would not work. Right?? I could be wrong and just trying to help. Randall