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1. Uncle Indie You Rock Radio on March 12, 2008 12:13 am

   I did a show not too long ago, in fact it is in the “Past Shows” section with a guy named David Slater who talks about Ubuntu, he sings the praises of the OS and if I wasn’t so “locked down” with MS based software apps I would change myself! That is how convincing he was. He did mention an app that allows MS based code to work on Ubuntu… Is that true?

2. UbuntuLinuxHelp on March 12, 2008 7:51 am

   @Uncle Indie You Rock – Thanks for the input and yes, it’s true. There are a few applications I know of that allow MS apps to run on Linux.

   For gamers there is a (paid commercial) product called Cedega: http://www.transgaming.com/pro.....ts/cedega/
   For business users there’s CrossOver Office (also commercial): http://www.codeweavers.com/
   And…
   There’s a free to download and use Opensource packaged solution called WINE (which I have used at times – Photoshop for example): http://www.winehq.org/
   

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