Linux and Poker (Geek Alert!)

[Wakou]

First of all, 'pologies to any who see this elsewhere, I have xposted it to one other forum; I don't know any who are members of both; I can't be A to rewrite for originality's sake....


I have recently been experimenting the the wonderful world of Linux, and I have in general been having fun with it. One problem though is the lack of support fro poker clients. I tried to run iPoker under WINE but with limited success, mainly crashing when closing a table, annoying to say the least when playing a tourney, or multi-SNGing.
I am now running XP inside a VBox, and all is good! Easy to install despite flakey documentation. Available free under PEUL (private end-user licence) from Sun Micro-systems, or included with openSUSE and some other distro's. The included version lacks support for USB directly within the 'Box, so if you want to install to a USB HDD or from a USB CD/DVD, better to use the PEUL and enable the USB before you start. USB mouse works fine with either version, and WiFi is taken care of by the guest using the host's network.
Has anyone else any experience in this area? hyperviser, Xen? VMWare?
Or better still anyone managed to get WINE running iPoker reliably? I did not try any other poker SW, as I use iPoker everyday, so if I am going to have to run a VBox, I might as well do all of my pokering from there; still annoying to have to run a "foreign" OS inside my own...

[LaserCowboy]

From a bit of internet research, it seems there isn't much demand for linux-compatible poker software (although anything mac-compatible will [with tweaking] work on linux).

that said, i have the poker.co.uk software working a treat through Wine. as far as i can tell, everything works perfectly, even sound!

i'm using the latest stable Wine (1.0.1) with no special settings on Ubuntu 8.10 (although it should work on pretty much any capable linux distro, as well as bsd, solaris, etc.).

if you need help with installing, give me a shout.

[tagadagat]

how about on other distros? will it work?

[Alicia diliama]

Now as we know Linux is one of the secure and better then windows os so now many of the poker software makers trying to launch software which are compatible with Linux.