wine
 

is there anything that wont work with wine?
and how well will a (clears throat) microsoft product work with it.. I.E. Front page xp.

There is tons of stuff that doesn't work with wine.
I don't know if frontpage will or not. Why don't you try nvu

Chance are Most stuff won't work .. particularly MS Office and applications in the office suite.
.. I have seen comments by some folks that they installed Office under wine, but I can't believe that is very reliable.
Folks who develop wine have a commercial product, codeweaver ..who's only mission is to enable "ms office" on linux and even that doesn't run the office fully.
It runs some applications well and others are very poorly supported, check their website for the list

Games too do not work. Not all, of course, but those which require directx8 and higher. All games of win95 (DOS related) pass though.

As has been said most software doesn't work, amongst others I have tried MS autoroute and Paint Shop Pro and winzip (just to test) and all I have had working is winzip, oh and an old windows game - chips challenge

Photoshop works with wine, the last release, not sure what the newest is. I nearly had Paint Shop Pro running but it crashed when the starting help pages came up. Maybe try copying from an installed windows installation ?

To gauge what apps work and what don't have a read of http://appdb.winehq.org/

Well I still managed to install Fallout 2. Can this be considered a challenge?:cool:

Maybe, though its not too important to me, and I'm learning The GIMP for the small things I need a image editor for. Though I will try for MS autoroute.

issues
 

OK i got wine to install i had a config file and once i rebooted the config file was gone so I ran the "wineprefixcreate" command I am running fedora core 3 i found the latetst suggest pakage for it its the " wine-20041201-1fc3winehq.i686.rpm" also i cant get it to run anything other than notepad and it cannot read my cd drive .. i am just wanting to run a few ganmes with it . is it really worth all this trouble or should i find a different way around it?

If you are willing to spend 5 dollars a month go with Cedega it is a commercial version of wine that is designed for games.

i downloaded cedega from cvs it created .cvdwine and told me to get winetools which i did and then said i needed winex which i also got still no dice guuess i do need the paid version but on another note can anyone tell me how to convert a .mdf and.mds file into one iso i been googling since yesterday still have yet to find an answer that works.