VB under Linux
 

Can I use VB under Linux? If not what tool would be better to use instead?

Java sure as hell will!

RealBasic is a cross platform version of Visual Basic from what I have heard. There is also Mono project can do Visual Basic .NET

http://www.realsoftware.com/products/
http://www.mono-project.com/Languages

Those are really the only alternatives I have ran across but maybe there are more.

Screw that, take the time and learn Java.

Yeah, baby!

Go for it! Java is easy and A LOOOT more powerful. Plus it looks better on your resume, ;)

There's also Python, which is dynamically typed and doesn't have the syntaxical overhead of Java. In this fashion, it would seem to me to be more like Visual Basic; however, I'm not an expert on VB, so I may be mistaken.

I think you should go ahead and learn Java over VB/RealBasic, for Wndows and Linux. The only thing that VB has over Java is the speed of making forms.

I disagree. I could take the time to write an INTERCAL equivilant of a Java program if I really wanted, they have an equal amount of computation power (look into turing-completeness.) Thing is that each language has it's own certain features that faciliate the process (normally at least, INTERCAL is a move in the opposite direction really, but it still has an equal amount of power when compared to Java, same goes for visual basic.)

Java -- Write once, test everywhere...