A Windows program? Google WineHQ and look up your program in their database after you have downloaded Wine in the Software Center or Synaptic. Programs made for Ubuntu will run with a double click after you have right-clicked, gone into permissions, and checked the box that says something like "Enable running program."
Download a program called Wine. It will allow you to run almost all .exes you download from the internet.
Download the JRE (java runtime environment) from Sun's website. make sure you get a version that will run on your os.
Kid Pix is a Windows program. To even attempt to run it in Ubuntu, you must install Wine. To install wine, enter the following into a terminal:sudo apt-get install wineAfter it is installed, you can try to run the program by using the following commandwine program.exesubstituting the name of the program file in.
Ubuntu is best, but then I'm biased, as my computers all run Ubuntu!
Yes, but it will require ubuntu 8.10
Yes, OpenOffice.org can run on Linux and some like Ubuntu include this office program.
Ubuntu *is* Linux.
All pcs can run Linux. Specifically, you can download and run Ubuntu, which is Linux based. Any PC can run Ubuntu and/or dual-boot Windows and Ubuntu.
No. It is entirely possible to install and run Ubuntu on a computer without ever having run Windows on it.
Yes. It is available both in Ubuntu's repository, and from the game's website.
Ubuntu is a free system program. Therefore, all of the software which comes from Ubuntu is free as well. One might want to check out from the main website of Ubuntu.
Depending on your hardware, Ubuntu should run on VMWare just fine.