Thanks for all the posts, have been loads of help. Mac, you are half way right with Solaris, i did have the Spark version, but that wouldnt run at all. I got the X86 and giving me hardware issue, not so sure if its due to been a laptop?
I am also finding very few reasons to stick with M$ now. All i need is FS2004, and i am considering just scrapping that now FSX looks like its just got a graphics makeover and going for X-plane.
I just downloaded Freespire, seems pretty good, i got a demo of a Windows Emu from Linspire and it run FS pretty well, and a funny thing is, it costs less that a copy of Windows, i am pretty sure though it would have some drawbacks?
Thanks again anyway, i am going to try figure out Solaris as thats what my Uni is running and i wanted it to be the same, but if not, looks like Fedora is my pic. Thanks again...