I’ve pretty much written off trying to use Wine. I have 3 programs that I need to be able to run in Linux or find an acceptable alternative and then my wife will be done with Windows, too. None of those 3 programs run in Wine. I think that two of them might have Linux alternatives that she would like at least as much as the Windows version.
Since I already have Windows XP, I’m trying to find the time to shrink down my ext3 Kubuntu installation to make run so I can have VMware Converter make a new image of the XP instance for me. Then, I’m planning on having VMware take a shot at running Windows XP inside Kubuntu.
This is my long term plan because it will put me well on the way to getting little virtual instances of different Linux flavors to experiment with. Plus I’d like to try FreeBSD and maybe even OpenDOS someday just to see what they do.
But, Wine 0.9.44 has been released.
I don’t see anything that really gives any indication that it will help those three programs run, but maybe I’ll have to take a night and see what happens.
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OK, I’ll bite: what are the three apps?
Microsoft Money, Kodak EasyShare, Print Shop.
I think I can move her to F-Spot and maybe Quicken for Linux. Print Shop is going to be a show stopper for now, though.
If you have a Linux alternative for Print Shop, I would love to hear it.
Which versions of those three apps?
Microsoft Money 2004
Kodak EasyShare 6.0.1.20
The Print Shop 20
Microsoft money= Gnucash
Printshop= The Gimp
(Don’t know about Easyshare)
Dan, I use Gimp all the time and love that program but it is not anything like Printshop. You might be able to create some of the things like birthday cards and calendars, but you cannot do it as easily and you do not get any kind of photo/image library to use either.
I have been meaning to look into Gnucash, though. Thanks for the reminder.
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