On Monday, January 13, 2014 22:27:45 Joseph Apuzzo wrote: > Bottom line is that Windows XP users want to run XP programs. > XP users will most likely have older video cards, or have conservative > hardware. > To run XP programs on Linux you will need a modern up-to-date version of > Wine <http://www.winehq.org/> > > Thus my best recommendation is XFCE <http://www.xfce.org/> as a desktop ( > works without fancy video cards, not a resource hog ) > But a Linux distro as Ed stated modern and has the most packages, thus > Xbuntu <http://xubuntu.org/> or Mint 16 <http://blog.linuxmint.com/?p=2534> > Then install wine and also winetricks > <http://wiki.winehq.org/winetricks>which will most likely get running > most if not all XP programs up and > running. > Also Ubuntu/Xbuntu should have a full decent Chinese language translation > also supporting the local keyboards. > > But... if the system is to be deployed in China, and used by a Chinese > citizen, then there only choice is RedFlag Linux > <http://www.redflag-linux.com>
And now Red Flag Linux is gone... http://www.zdnet.com/cn/chinas-home-grown-linux-os-shutters-7000026404/ > I expect RedFlag to have Wine, but most likely winetricks will not run (it > d/l files from MS and thus may fail because of the great wall) > > That's the best I think you can do, it's not a magic bullet, some assembly > required -- Chris -- Chris Knadle [email protected] _______________________________________________ Mid-Hudson Valley Linux Users Group http://mhvlug.org https://mhvlug.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mhvlug Upcoming Meetings (6pm - 8pm) Vassar College Mar 5 - 11th Anniversary Meeting - Home Network Show and Tell Apr 2 - Nginx: High-Performance HTTP Server, Reverse Proxy, and IMAP/POP3 Proxy Server May 7 - Google App Engine
