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From: Gordon Banks <>
Subject: Re: [TMG] TMG and Linux and Lindows
Date: Tue, 02 Dec 2003 08:36:25 -0800
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I would try Win4Lin if they got it to run Windows 2000. Unfortunately,
they only have Windows 98, which is not a real operating system at all.
There is an emulator that runs Windows 2000, but it is pretty pricey.
Cheaper for me to run two machines. I look forward to the day when a
really good genealogy program comes out for Linux. I've even thought
about writing one, but when I see all the problems a program like TMG
has it looks like more than a full-time job to maintain it, although
maybe Foxbase is part of the problem.


On Mon, 2003-12-01 at 09:39, Dennis L. Bright wrote:
> Gordon,
>
> Dick Eastman wrote about running TMG using Win4Lin to allow Windows to run
> as an application on Linux. This is the same setup that Darrell is using.
>
> I agree with you that a port of TMG to Linux would be ideal, I also agree
> with Bob about the available market. So I think we are stuck with using
> something like Win4Lin if we wish to migrate our genealogy to Linux and
> continue using TMG.
>
> Regards,
> Dennis L. Bright
>
> At 08:30 AM 12/1/2003, you wrote:
> >Dick Eastman reports that he has TMG running on a Windows emulator, but
> >I don't think it is Lindows.
> >
> >Windows emulators still are just a process running Windows on a Linux
> >machine, so any bugs in Windows will still be bugs in the emulator. The
> >real cure for Microsoft problems would be to write TMG for
> >Linux/Unix/Mac OS X using one of the open source database managers, but
> >Bob has said that is too much work for too little market at this point.
> >
> >
> >On Sun, 2003-11-30 at 20:22, DemonBean wrote:
> > > I know TMG will not run inder Linux but am wondering if anyone has tried it
> > > using Lindows on a Linux machine?
> > > I am not as confident as I once might have been that it might run OK under
> > > Lindows since I have seen messages about strange behavior on one version of
> > > Windows versus another.
> > >
> > > Thanks,
> > >
> > > Bean
> > >
> > >
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