For whoever wants to know, Rootsmagic 7 runs perfectly in Ubuntu 14.04 (current version) when installed via Wine. Wine is software that emulates the Microsoft Windows file system and supplies libraries and so forth. Ubuntu has grown up; rivals Mac X in appearance and has gotten far more user friendly. It has Linux versions of most things one would want software for, such as two free office suites. One has one's pick of desktops that work with Ubuntu; Unity and Gnome 3 are the most attractive with them, and I recommend Gnome as Unity seems to have stability issues; they may possibly have to do with video compatibility and hardware acceleration; I tested that idea only in Gnome. (You have to choose not to run hardware acceleration.) EVERYTHING ran with Linux generic drivers; the video, the sound, the Internet, AND the laser printer; I've NEVER had that happen in windows. Most hardware except the very newest is just supported. I think on my regular computer I did have to install a driver for my video card. Many things can now be done through the graphical interface that formerly had to be done in Terminal, though it's often easier to do it in Terminal (which is not hard). You do have to add a fair amount of functionality to the operating system in tools and tweaks, however. There is a free little book in pdf format that provides a good introduction to Ubuntu all over the web. The software manager contains an older version of it. I got my favorite games - a solitaire game, Majong, and two jigsaw games, to run in Wine or PlayonLinux (which runs on Wine but adds virtual drives). There are good image editing and web editing tools for Ubuntu. Yours, Dora Smith --- This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. http://www.avast.com

Rootsmagic runs well on Ubuntu/ Debian based systems with atleast sometimes some fixes. Evidently the GDI+ bug is still with us in Rootsmagic 7. I've run Rootsmagic a number of times without seeming to have needed it, but possibly it was already installed for another reason or as part of some package I installed, and it could be a component of Zorin out of the box. Zorin is a debian-based package a bunch of college students put together and sell for $12.50. I found that every single thing they put in the package still had to be updated, which often meant reinstalling it, but since it does include Wine and Playonlinux it may also include GDI+. There are several other pieces of software that one needs to run Rootsmagic, most notably the Microsoft XML parser. I'm not too sure what it might need flash and IE for, and atleast the program itself is working without Flash installed. Winetricks couldn't install it. Flash does run on my Linux system. Come on, folks, it isn't like you haven't known for years that you need to include the GDI+ package on the install CD and web site download page for people running Mac and Linux, as it is no longer even part of the Microsoft operating system, apparently. And ditto the Microsoft XML parser, though I didn't get far enough before making these fixes to verify that an XML parser hasn't been added to the Rootsmagic package. You know, Microsoft is pretty much leaving the entire human race in the dust. It pretty much takes an outer space alien to like Windows 8 and I guess when Windows 8 auto-erases on that crowd they just run out and buy another laptop/ tablet/ personal communicator aka Star Trek or whatever with them Sesame Street colored tiles that even a child can't stand all over your screen. Now, like many people, I'm working hard at converting to Linux, for myself and for my family. Getting my genealogy software to work on Linux was a critical prerequisite. I put a complete writeup about it in tips and hints on the Rootsmagic web site; of course there is nothing on the Rootsmagic web site about it. http://forums.rootsmagic.com/index.php?/topic/15192-rootsmagic-7-runs-well-on-linux-ubuntu-1404-but-sometimes-needs-fixes/ Crossover, a Windows emulator for Mac and Linux that costs $50 and is supposed to be worth it, also has a fix for the GDI+ issue. Yours, Dora Smith -----Original Message----- From: Dora Smith via Sent: Monday, March 09, 2015 10:36 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [RMagic] Rootsmagic runs well in Ubuntu with Wine For whoever wants to know, Rootsmagic 7 runs perfectly in Ubuntu 14.04 (current version) when installed via Wine. Wine is software that emulates the Microsoft Windows file system and supplies libraries and so forth. Ubuntu has grown up; rivals Mac X in appearance and has gotten far more user friendly. It has Linux versions of most things one would want software for, such as two free office suites. One has one's pick of desktops that work with Ubuntu; Unity and Gnome 3 are the most attractive with them, and I recommend Gnome as Unity seems to have stability issues; they may possibly have to do with video compatibility and hardware acceleration; I tested that idea only in Gnome. (You have to choose not to run hardware acceleration.) EVERYTHING ran with Linux generic drivers; the video, the sound, the Internet, AND the laser printer; I've NEVER had that happen in windows. Most hardware except the very newest is just supported. I think on my regular computer I did have to install a driver for my video card. Many things can now be done through the graphical interface that formerly had to be done in Terminal, though it's often easier to do it in Terminal (which is not hard). You do have to add a fair amount of functionality to the operating system in tools and tweaks, however. There is a free little book in pdf format that provides a good introduction to Ubuntu all over the web. The software manager contains an older version of it. I got my favorite games - a solitaire game, Majong, and two jigsaw games, to run in Wine or PlayonLinux (which runs on Wine but adds virtual drives). There are good image editing and web editing tools for Ubuntu. Yours, Dora Smith --- This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. http://www.avast.com =================================== RM list Archives: http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/index/ROOTSMAGIC-USERS/ http://archiver.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/search?path=ROOTSMAGIC-USERS WISH LIST: http://www.rootsmagic.com/forums/ BLOG: http://blog.rootsmagic.com/ ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message --- This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. http://www.avast.com