Using FTM in Linux

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Jim

Using FTM in Linux

Legg inn av Jim » 02 des 2005 06:11:15

Just wondering if anyone has tried using Wine FTM with Linux?
Thanks
Jim

David A' Rebel

Re: Using FTM in Linux

Legg inn av David A' Rebel » 02 des 2005 06:16:39

Jim wrote:

Just wondering if anyone has tried using Wine FTM with Linux?
Thanks
Jim

I haven't but then I like Gramps.


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NHill

Re: Using FTM in Linux

Legg inn av NHill » 11 des 2005 01:17:06

Jim wrote:

Just wondering if anyone has tried using Wine FTM with Linux?
Thanks
Jim

I decided to go only linux no Microsoft products.

I was using gramps and ftree but I could not get what I wanted out of
them.

I did try to get windows programs working using the wine, although some
programs worked none of the genealogy ones worked for me.

So I gave up and got back to my favourite - Legacy and began windows
programing again.

Still have not given up on linux SUSE is great for an out of the box OS
with all the functionality for free that MS asks money for as addons.

But I was just getting too frustated with my family history research.

Noela

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Robert Melson

Re: Using FTM in Linux

Legg inn av Robert Melson » 11 des 2005 04:31:34

In article <6eKmf.16957$ea6.12070@news-server.bigpond.net.au>,
"NHill" <NHill@redpencil.com.au> writes:
I decided to go only linux no Microsoft products.

I was using gramps and ftree but I could not get what I wanted out of
them.

Not trying to start a flame war. I'm curious what you wanted that gramps/ftree
didn't provide. Granted ftree is pretty basic, current versions of gramps seem
to me to be on a par with FTM and the other windoze genealogy packages. I've
also found that gdbi - a java front end for phpGedView - with its Brothers
Keeper-like look'n'feel is comfortable (but y'gotta have phpGedView installed
somewhere).

Bob Melson
(He's Swell! He's Old! He's Bob! SOB!)

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Robert Heiling

Re: Using FTM in Linux

Legg inn av Robert Heiling » 11 des 2005 04:46:24

Robert Melson wrote:
In article <6eKmf.16957$ea6.12070@news-server.bigpond.net.au>,
"NHill" <NHill@redpencil.com.au> writes:

I decided to go only linux no Microsoft products.

I was using gramps and ftree but I could not get what I wanted out of
them.

Not trying to start a flame war. I'm curious what you wanted that gramps/ftree
didn't provide. Granted ftree is pretty basic, current versions of gramps seem
to me to be on a par with FTM and the other windoze genealogy packages. I've
also found that gdbi - a java front end for phpGedView - with its Brothers
Keeper-like look'n'feel is comfortable (but y'gotta have phpGedView installed
somewhere).

Not to mention GenJ, a java app, which runs just as well under Linux as
it does Windows. Then there is always Lifelines.<g>

Bob

Robert Melson

Re: Using FTM in Linux

Legg inn av Robert Melson » 11 des 2005 07:43:03

In article <439BA110.C8ACE998@comcast.net>,
Robert Heiling <robheil@comcast.net> writes:
<snip>
Not to mention GenJ, a java app, which runs just as well under Linux as
it does Windows. Then there is always Lifelines.<g

Bob

Yeah, been there, done that. Objectively, GenJ's OK, I suppose. Subjectively,
though, I find it less than satisfactory - and if you threatened me with
great bodily harm, I couldn't tell you _why_, just hat I don't really like it.
Go figure.

Would still like to know what gramps/ftree didn't do for her that would have
caused her to take a step backward to windoze.

Sleepy Ol' Bob


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Robert G. Melson | Rio Grande MicroSolutions | El Paso, Texas
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Joe Makowiec

Re: Using FTM in Linux

Legg inn av Joe Makowiec » 11 des 2005 13:05:24

On 10 Dec 2005 in soc.genealogy.computing, Robert Heiling wrote:

Not to mention GenJ, a java app, which runs just as well under Linux as
it does Windows.

Given my experience with Java apps on Windows, that's not necessarily an
endorsement...

Then there is always Lifelines.<g

<g> It is, by the way, still in active development, for those interested
in scripting:

http://lifelines.sourceforge.net/

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Joe Makowiec
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Robert Heiling

Re: Using FTM in Linux

Legg inn av Robert Heiling » 11 des 2005 14:51:19

Robert Melson wrote:
In article <439BA110.C8ACE998@comcast.net>,
Robert Heiling <robheil@comcast.net> writes:
snip
Not to mention GenJ, a java app, which runs just as well under Linux as
it does Windows. Then there is always Lifelines.<g

Bob

Yeah, been there, done that. Objectively, GenJ's OK, I suppose. Subjectively,
though, I find it less than satisfactory - and if you threatened me with
great bodily harm, I couldn't tell you _why_, just hat I don't really like it.
Go figure.

For me it's just the other way around. It's so blinding-fast and can be
be used for quick spur of the moment lookups in whichever os you happen
to be running at the moment. Call it a utility if you like. Everyone
should at least take a look at it.

Would still like to know what gramps/ftree didn't do for her that would have
caused her to take a step backward to windoze.

I'll keep my mouth shut because it did start that flame war you
mentioned the last time I spoke up about that one.

Bob

Robert Heiling

Re: Using FTM in Linux

Legg inn av Robert Heiling » 11 des 2005 15:05:02

Joe Makowiec wrote:
On 10 Dec 2005 in soc.genealogy.computing, Robert Heiling wrote:

Not to mention GenJ, a java app, which runs just as well under Linux as
it does Windows.

Given my experience with Java apps on Windows, that's not necessarily an
endorsement...

Oops - Guess I did phrase that poorly.<g> It's just that I installed the
latest version of java in recent weeks ago to attempt some development
work in regard to my photo album images. It occurred to me then that
installing & running GenJ would be a good way to test my java
installation and all was well and familiar.

Bob

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