I am using Ubuntu, It is really full-filling my purpose. For some popular windows software to run, I use wine, Like Utorrent, Macromedia Dreamwaver CS4 Portable. etc...

Multimedia codec support is a pain in the ass under linux (and in most countries its technically illegal to watch most store-baught DVDs under it)

Did you botther to read the post? he was dissapointed with fedora, which is the home-user, free, more bleeding edge version of red hat. if that lacks the features he needs, then red hat will definately not meet them.

Please, dont discuss illegal acts here.

And why are all the versions you are using ancient? Fedora 6/7??? 11 is out now! As is ubuntu 9! and suse 11! Use an up-to-date version (I reccomend the most recent ubuntu 9.x) and you will get much better driver support.

Thank you all for helping me

I tried Ubuntu 9, it was simply great.
It comes with buitin drivers for system.
So now i dont need to worry abt installing driver (graphics,audio,...).

As many of you said i am now able install applications from add/remove in ubuntu using internet. Yes this is easiest way for people like me.

I like Ubuntu now.
I installed wine and then dreamweaver 8 but i cannot open the dreamweaver8.exe with wine!
Also in programs menu under wine only dreamweaver extention is shown not link for dreamweaver!

Can someone show me how to install an application with wine?
(i've installed wine 1.0.1)

Thanks you all Again.

i forgot to tell you people that, i also tried but unfortunately i downloaded an outdated version MEPIS 6
its good but Ubuntu 9 seems more relaxed.

One more thing,
I never thought making internet connection in Linux will be this much easy. With few clicks i was connected to internet.

Im very happy now.

Im sorry for this.
Actually me too didn't want to discuss about illegal things here. I thought those information would be helpful for those who will help me,
they might get idea about my needs that's all and nothing more to do with that illegal thing.

Also I noticed that you didn't wasted your chance to give me an infraction.

You may need additional libaries etc... Try "winetricks" to get these.

I didnt really want to, but it site policy and annoyingly the "keep it legal" reason has no option to give just a warning.

Thanks, I'll check for "winetricks".

I'm a newbie with ubuntu... is wine for free... i still run on dual OS for my windows progs like matlab, and other stuff... but if i can run things with wine... that would be awesome...

i looked at all these posts and are happy to find the "wine" program i will most defenitly try it out tomorow, thank you for that further more i realy like the ubuntu flavor but have never tried any other i like the idea to keep both the os's i have ubuntu, windows 7, xp and server 2003 on my machine. i first had xp installed then 2003 then vista witch i replaced with windows 7 and then linux ubuntu

For newbie like me. Ubuntu 9.04 is user friendly. The software packages is easily available through their Synaptic packages. Thats where I install my Wine. The whole thing is cool. Highly recommended.