Intuit Software (Quickbooks etc) under Linux?

[D. Hugh Redelmeier]

| From: phiscock-g851W1bGYuGnS0EtXVNi6w at public.gmane.org

| What is the incentive for running XP?

Well I don't run it often at all.  On the machine on which I'm typing
this, I've used it to:

1) update the BIOS (in the vain hope of fixing an APIC setup problem)

2) try to reverse engineer the driver for a peripheral not yet
   unsupported on LINUX.  (Attempt currently suspended.)

3) update Windows.  (Talk about self-justification.)


| Why not simply run Win 2000 or 98?

Oh, that's what you meant :-)

WinXP is what I have a licence for.  I certainly don't want to buy
another MS Windows licence, of any version.  As a general rule, I
don't violate copyright.

I don't want two copies of MS Windows on my machine.  I already
have a WinXP partition.  So I'd like to use this partition and its
contents as the resource base for emulation.  I'd like to share data
files between the native and emulated MS Windows instances.

Another (admittedly theoretical) reason to choose WinXP over older
version is that more new software assumes WinXP.

Under an emulator, Win2000 or Win98 would probably work.  Neither is
supported on the actual hardware of my machines.

That ought to be enough reasons :-)

Having said all that, I don't really care very much to run MS Windows on a
virtual machine.  If someone else figures it out, and it easy, I might
try it.  (One reason is to allow us to run quickbooks under Linux.)
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