linux distro runs W98 games?

[Matt]

Which distro were you trying to get VMWare into?  If your kids are doing 
3D games, VMware wouldn't be a good solution because AFAIK, there's no 
3D video driver for a virtual video card.  If you want some help getting 
VMWare Server going, it might help with some of the problems you 
described - you could just take a snapshot once you've got Windows 
installed and configured, and if things go horribly wrong, you could 
just reset to the snapshot.

Chris Aitken wrote:
> 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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