Welcome to the forums :-)
As Wilse says, Wine wouldn't work. And I don't think VMWare would (doesn't it just "box" part of the processor's time as a virtual processor, so the virtualised processor would need to be the same architecture as the host CPU.
Bochs on the other hand is "just" an emulator - anyone had any luck with it?
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What do you want the A1 for? The greatest feature is that it'll run OS4 when it's out - I'd hate to think that you would buy it just for Linux ;-) BTW are you sure that native solutions like OpenOffice won't help you?
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That about VMWare was just my educated guesses - you seem to have researched it (I didn't).
