Hi everyone,

Now, sorry if I am a bit frank, but I'll get straight to the point, I don't like Windows so much and I am starting to move to linux, so I have to find a way to develop programs for linux. Since I know VB quite well now, it would be quite a mess to start learning something new, so I was wondering if any other of you VB6 programmers were in a similar situation and if you could give me any suggestion or links to tutorials, etc. I heard about programs such as Wine (Win-e = Windows Emulator) which are meant for running .exe files on linux but also for converting exes to linux modules at compile time, but I didn't figure out yet how to do that. My preferred ultimate goal would be if I could continue coding my programs in vb6 (running on linux under wine) and convert them to linux programs when I compile them (then in that way I could compile them also as exes and make multi-platform programs), however ANY suggestion is welcome. Sorry, I know here there are people working in Windows world so I don't think many people will be able to help, but it's still regarding vb, so I just gave it a try. One thing which is important is that I do not want to use commercial software but only OPEN SOURCE programs (except of course vb which I will stand).

@Administrators: Okay, I understand this forum discusses Microsoft software and I might not be pleasing you a lot by saying that I don't like Windows, am moving to Linux, etc. I apologize for this, and if you think it's really too much, just inform me and I'll remove it and ask my question elsewhere (perhaps on Linux forums).

I hope you can help me.
Thanks in advance for any response.