Devdas Bhagat wrote:
Some problems I see with this: Installing programs. Not so easy to share windows binaries. Games. Winmodems. Voice chat. People want MS Office. OO will not be acceptible. Or Lyx.
Devdas Bhagat
I don't see the problem with Open Office. At the clients where we have installed and configured Linux networks, people are extremely happy with it.
Quake and Myth have been ported to Linux so are many other games. Tux racer being one of the better HW-accelarated games on linux. With SDL you can write games for both linux and windows.
Voice chat may be possible on linux though I am not aware of the software.
Some of windows programs may work with Wine which is rapidly improving day by day.
Some winmodems can be configured to work with linux. I had configured one on RH 7.1 sometime back.
I think your problems can actually solved. It's really not that big a deal. Unless u are using some Properiety s/w on windows which cannot be ported or misbehaves under wine.
---> Vinayak Hegde