On Tue, 30 Sep 2008, Nick Scholtes wrote: > Okay, well, setting noob aside. What would it take to get Lightwave for > Windows code running stably on Linux? See, the biggest issue you'd have with that is getting the source code for Lightwave. It is TECHNICALLY possible to port any code over to any OS (within reason, of course). You'd have to know the language it was written in REALLY well, and you'd have to know both source and target operating systems REALLY well, and you'd need to know how to interact with both using the programming language REALLY well. For a big app like Lightwave you'd probably need a TEAM of people. Now, small open-source FREE SOFTWARE apps, not a problem. You download the source, look at it, hopefully there's a reasonably similar programming language and API, and you get going. Large corporations are NOT going to give you their source code. It's as simple as that. Licensing issues, IP issues, patent issues, plus they just don't care. If you want to run Windows apps on Linux, try using WINE.That might actually work! -Yaron --