Having actually written database programs for Linux and having used Linux on a regular basis I can say firmly that Linux is VERY stable, more so then any versin of windows I have ever run.

A prime example would be Red Hat v6.2 which even comes with quite a nice installr. Either way Linux is very stable, if anything it suffers from a lack of program content.

Now as for programming on Linux there are many solutions. My current favorite being Perl with a mySQL backend for data. You can use perlTK to get a pretty descent interface too.

But in the end I'd rather have VFP on linux. *G*