Hi there,
After much experimentation, I've finally managed to get Metastock to run smoothly on my Ubuntu Hardy Heron 8.04 LTS desktop.
This is by using a virtualisation software called VirtualBox and it is free and open-sourced.
It seems to work fine on my old Intel Celeron 2.8 GHz CPU, with 512 MiB RAM and a 80 GiB hard disk. No additional hardware acceleration was used.
Watch a video demonstration of how my setup looks like : http://www.youtube. com/watch? v=PEIupV0jMIQ
Now you can enjoy the benefits of using Linux and yet be able to use your favourite charing software.
Cheers.