linux distro runs W98 games?

[Chris Aitken]

My kids want to run Windows programs. I would like them to use linux for 
various reasons. Is there a commercial linux (of the redhat side of 
things rather than the debian side of things) distibution that can run 
Windows programs out-of-the-box? Optional extra paid-for support would 
be fine. I'm not interested in fiddling with their machines anymore. 
I've tried dual-boots but then they never boot up linux. I actually 
bought a copy of vmware but I can't shoehorn it into newer 
distributions. I don't know that it would be great for games anyway. Is 
there a distro that has successfully integrated wine or winex or 
whatever so it can run Windows programs? I guess they are older Windos 
programs because my son, for example, still wants W98SE instead of newer 
OSs. He says his programs won't even run on XP.

Before *you* say it, *I'll* say it: "Yes, I *am* trying to make the 
problem go away by throwing money at it." I am willing to do the work on 
my own machine (audacity, rosegarden, printing, Internet, Thunderbird, 
openoffice et al.) but I am not willing to do this much work on the kids 
machines. But I would love for them to use linux.

Chris
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