I think the subject says it all, I am building new machine and and considering all my options, but with as much as I have invested in poser and stuff!!! well you can imagine.

I think you can run it under linux with wine, but i ve never try i've multiboot :-)

I've had poser 4-7 running in Linux (with wine) but I couldn't tell you if the newest version works as I'm back to Windows at the moment.

I run Poser 7 under linux (using WINE). It's a little slow but it works.

Standard installation Ubuntu (64Bit) here with P8. Works good and fast out of the box.
Means no tricks or specials to become happy. Just Posers new silly library palette made with flash is so "special" that I have to run it in a seperate browserwindow (not "integrated" in Poser). 

Quote - Standard installation Ubuntu (64Bit) here with P8. Works good and fast out of the box.
Means no tricks or specials to become happy. Just Posers new silly library palette made with flash is so "special" that I have to run it in a seperate browserwindow (not "integrated" in Poser). 

Which version of P8 win or mac?

Quote - Which version of P8 win or mac?

It's going to be the Windows version running under WINE. Wine is the defacto Windows emulator for Linux. You'll see some performance hit and I don't know if the newest WINE will do pass-through OpenGL so that Poser can use the hardware renderer in your graphics card... give it a shot if you need to run Poser in Linux.

 Is there a DazStudio version made for Linux? That may be an option, though I've never tried Daz' product. I just know it shares a lot in common with Poser's feature set.

Running P8 in Ubuntu 9.10. (64-bit) here too in a quad-core machine with 6 Gb of ram (and earlier in 9.04). Apart from the need to run the library palette within a separate browser window, P8 works very nicely, is fast and responsive and installing was a breeze too. Depending on one's graphics card, Wine settings may need some tweaking (like, for example I don't like running P8 in a mode that gives Gnome full control of the window behaviour and decorations).

 Personally I don't see any performance hit like TwoDigital has - in fact Wine gives all resources exposed to it straight to whatever program it runs (like I can use my Wacom tablet to control Poser out-of-the-box if I so wish). The Daz installers are a PITA, though. I've a barebones WinXP installation within a VirtualBox so Daz installers that won't work in Wine, I can run in WinXP. If Daz resources are to be installed, one should take the Daz installer issue into consideration.

At least Nvidea OpenGL is fully supported.
Newer DAZ packages seem to run fine with WINE. Having a Windows version in a VirtualBox without network access is nice to have (even Windows 2000 or Windows 95 will do).
Speed is better at least for anything file-related (INJ orgies) or on machines with lesser memory. Running several aps at once is  smoother than with XP.