I've just downloaded it as well, I'm a Linux user. I hope that RM5 will run well in it. :) I was able to get RM4 running in WINE last year, but I couldn't get RM5 to work properly. I do have Win XP in a virtual box, but if I can avoid using that then that is great! And thank you to Bruce for sending out the heads up in their newsletter yesterday! Kim On 10/31/2012 10:39 AM, Michael Reich wrote: > The Crossover software works very well with a variety of programs on my > Macs. I've used it for several years to run RM 3 and a couple of other > Windows programs on my Mac. This is a great deal. The 12 mos. of > support means you get updates to the program for a year. > >

Crossover is an adaptation of Wine for Linux based computers, including Macs, and it requires a lot less of the geek requirements to run than Wine. They provide pretty responsive support so it's worth the cost. On 10/31/12 10:03 AM, Kim wrote: > I've just downloaded it as well, I'm a Linux user. I hope that RM5 will > run well in it. :) I was able to get RM4 running in WINE last year, but > I couldn't get RM5 to work properly. I do have Win XP in a virtual box, > but if I can avoid using that then that is great! > > And thank you to Bruce for sending out the heads up in their newsletter > yesterday! > > Kim > > On 10/31/2012 10:39 AM, Michael Reich wrote: >> The Crossover software works very well with a variety of programs on my >> Macs. I've used it for several years to run RM 3 and a couple of other >> Windows programs on my Mac. This is a great deal. The 12 mos. of >> support means you get updates to the program for a year. >> >> > > > =================================== > 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 ROOTSMAGIC-USERS-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message >

I played around with RM5 running under Wine and Crossover under Ubuntu. Results are very mixed. RM5 looks good but has many crashes and window size changes etc. I suspect an expert could "tune" Crossover to run RM5 almost natively but in my experience it hasn't happened yet. Jim On Oct 31, 2012, at 11:03 AM, Kim <kim.mills@wightman.ca> wrote: > I've just downloaded it as well, I'm a Linux user. I hope that RM5 will > run well in it. :) I was able to get RM4 running in WINE last year, but > I couldn't get RM5 to work properly. I do have Win XP in a virtual box, > but if I can avoid using that then that is great! > > And thank you to Bruce for sending out the heads up in their newsletter > yesterday! > > Kim > > On 10/31/2012 10:39 AM, Michael Reich wrote: >> The Crossover software works very well with a variety of programs on my >> Macs. I've used it for several years to run RM 3 and a couple of other >> Windows programs on my Mac. This is a great deal. The 12 mos. of >> support means you get updates to the program for a year. >> >> > > > > =================================== > 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 ROOTSMAGIC-USERS-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message