Running windows programs under Linux

[Chris Green]

On Fri, Aug 29, 2014 at 08:50:00AM +1000, Peter Goggin wrote:
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> >
> Thankyou all on this list for your willingness to help. I found out
> how to install the rest of virtualbox so I now have Windows XP and
> Office XP installed in the virtualbox  with all office applications
> able to read and write to files in my Linux home directory.  I can
> continue using my first laptop as a ubuntu machine ut still maintain
> my access data base. This will give me the breathing space to
> explore a complete linux solution for the database.
> 
There really isn't still a good Access replacement for Linux.  There's
possibly Kexi and possibly the database in Open Office but neither
quite manages it yet.  Access is one of the two things I still run in
my VirtualBox XP machine.

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Chris Green