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

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. -- Ian Hotmail is for spammers. Real mail address is igoddard at nildram co uk