On Sat, May 03, 2008 at 03:07:56PM -0500, vitamin wrote: > > Maybe in some distant future it would be ok to run Wine in the background all the time. But not now. > For now the only realm where Wine used is user programs. Any services that must run all the time have to have a native Linux version. Request such software from your vendor. Or switch to vendor that provides native Linux versions. > You can always start a separate program such as notepad and keep it running. This will keep your services up and running. > I seem to remember that the server for Unreal Tournament has a Linux version. I don't know whether that's relevant at all to what you're asking, though. -- hendrik