[PLUG] A challenge...

Michael Robinson plug_1 at robinson-west.com
Thu Apr 16 01:58:41 UTC 2009


My dad has a Fedora 9 box and a Windows 2000 box.

His Windows 2000 box has dual PIII 750 mhz processors.
This box has a gig of ram, but it's PC100 ram.  TurboTax
will not work on Windows 2000 anymore.  Will WINE support
TurboTax?  How about Crossover Linux?

Windows XP is a pain in the tushy because support officially
ended yesterday and worse than that it still costs the same
that it did when it first came out.  Has Microsoft heard of 
depreciation?

His Linux box is comparable to mine, an Intel D845PEBT2 
Pentium 4 system.  I have Windows XP upgrade sitting on 
the shelf that I could use to build a virtual machine I 
suppose...  wish I didn't have to go through the blankety
blank activation.  It is actually installed on a 500 mhz
machine, but that machine hasn't been turned on for a very
long time.

I'd like a solution that doesn't involve Microsoft Windows 
at all, but short of Intuit releasing a Linux version of 
TurboTax that might not be possible.

A solution that involves WINE or a Linux version of TurboTax 
is preferable, but if I have to set up a Windows XP VM I have 
to.




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