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   From: David Floyd    
   Newsgroups: alt.os.linux.ubuntu   
   Subject: Re: Wanting to change from XP to Ubuntu and keep using Turnpike   
   Date: Wed, 28 Feb 2007 22:14:39 +0000   
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   In message of Tue, 27 Feb 2007, Hadron writes   
   >Chris  writes:   
   >   
   >> Only one thing is holding me back from moving to Ubuntu - and that is   
   >> that I want to keep using my email client, Turnpike.   
   >> I've never found anything better in the twelve years I've been using   
   >> Turnpike   
   >> and it won't run under WINE because it's a Windows namespace shell   
   >> extension - i.e. an extension of Windows Explorer.   
   >>   
   >> Would it be possible to run a fairly stripped down XP in a virtual   
   >> machine?   
   >   
   >Run a full one.   
   >   
   >>   
   >> Which would be the best virtualisation software for that?   
   >   
   >VMWare.   
   >   
      
   Nobody has mentioned Virtual Box.  I get on with that better than    
   VMWare.   
   And it's for the same reason - Turnpike.   
      
   Although I do run Thunderbird on Ubuntu.   
      
   David   
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