Ian Goddard wrote: > thor wrote: >> Oedipe bibbled of : >> >>> Hi, >>> >>> Is it possible to make "Legacy" working on Linux with "Wine"? >>> Any feedback of good or bad experiences welcomed :-) >>> >>> I'm just keeping Windows XP to run Legacy, but i've switched to Linux >>> for every other tasks. And i found "Gramps" absolutely awfull and bugged >>> compared to "Legacy". >>> >>> Regards, >> >> Had to try it and find out :) >> Works fine on my system, I have never used legacy before and am >> stating it >> from scratch so can't tell you if it will import your windows legacy >> database. It worked fine for a gedcom created from gramps though. >> >> David > > I just tried it and it barfed trying to open the sample. Error 429, > Activx component can't create object. > > An alternative approach might be to get Virtualbox and install XP under > that. I have W2K running that way for stuff that just won't work under > Wine. > If, like me, you can't get it to run under Wine you could download an eval of crossover office and try it under that - it's not listed but may run. Also regarding Wine an app. might run under some releases and not others. For instance I run Enterprise Architect under 0.9.51 but it won't run on my hardware under later versions. -- Ian Hotmail is for spammers. Real mail address is igoddard at nildram co uk

On 2008-03-09, Ian Goddard <goddai01@hotmail.co.uk> wrote: > Ian Goddard wrote: >> thor wrote: >>> Oedipe bibbled of : >>> >>>> Hi, >>>> >>>> Is it possible to make "Legacy" working on Linux with "Wine"? >>>> Any feedback of good or bad experiences welcomed :-) >>>> >>>> I'm just keeping Windows XP to run Legacy, but i've switched to Linux >>>> for every other tasks. And i found "Gramps" absolutely awfull and bugged >>>> compared to "Legacy". >>>> >>>> Regards, >>> >>> Had to try it and find out :) >>> Works fine on my system, I have never used legacy before and am >>> stating it >>> from scratch so can't tell you if it will import your windows legacy >>> database. It worked fine for a gedcom created from gramps though. >>> >>> David >> >> I just tried it and it barfed trying to open the sample. Error 429, >> Activx component can't create object. >> >> An alternative approach might be to get Virtualbox and install XP under >> that. I have W2K running that way for stuff that just won't work under >> Wine. >> > > If, like me, you can't get it to run under Wine you could download an > eval of crossover office and try it under that - it's not listed but may > run. > > Also regarding Wine an app. might run under some releases and not > others. For instance I run Enterprise Architect under 0.9.51 but it > won't run on my hardware under later versions. (Not that I'm trying to compare genealogy applications, but ...) PAF 5 has also had problems with Wine versions 0.9.51 through present. Regressions happen every once in a while. Fortunately, bug fixes and other improvements outnumber the regressions. (... usually ...) In case anyone interested in Wine isn't already aware of the Application DataBase (AppDB), it's here: http://appdb.winehq.org/ You can find what others have discovered about using specific applications. HTH -- Robert Riches spamtrap42@verizon.net (Yes, that is one of my email addresses.)