Comments on: windos software that we dont believe will run under linux

By: Julian Robbins

Julian Robbins — Sun, 01 Apr 2007 18:11:55 +0000

Hi again

I actually meant COMPIERE, got my words mixed up !! I think there is a fork now of this with a more community led version too …

http://www.compiere.org/

By: Julian Robbins

Julian Robbins — Wed, 28 Mar 2007 12:06:21 +0000

If you wish to try something commercial but Open source for Accounting have a look at Corbiere (I think its spelt like that). We use Quickbooks, and that IS working with Linux with Codeweavers Wine according to their Press.

Instead of Coreldraw, please try Scribus (Excellent DTP, we sue it here for all our DTP now, also runs on Windows,m if you want to get your staff up and running earlier), and Inkscape for Vector Graphics. This too also runs on Windows if you have the early need.

By: Seiti Yamashiro

Seiti Yamashiro — Thu, 22 Mar 2007 00:34:42 +0000

Try Inkscape for a Core Draw replacement.

By: Dan Kegel

Dan Kegel — Tue, 20 Mar 2007 21:16:36 +0000

I’ve added your migration project to
http://wiki.winehq.org/DesktopMigrationProjects

Sage Line 50 already has a bug filed:
http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2956
but we’re hampered because there’s no free demo for us to test.
If anyone wants to donate a copy, please let me know.

I filed bugs for the two little apps,
http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=7803
http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=7804
and will test more of the apps later.

Photoshop will probably be in good shape in six
months. Illustrator is further off; see
http://appdb.winehq.org/appview.php?iAppId=20

By: Vit Hrachovy

Vit Hrachovy — Tue, 20 Mar 2007 15:49:16 +0000

See http://appdb.winehq.org for the tested applications and level of support. AFAIK Corel Draw, Adobe Photoshop works very well.

By: Richard Houston

Richard Houston — Tue, 20 Mar 2007 14:40:34 +0000

One other solution you could explore for your Windows only program issue is Win4Lin server. If I understand correctly you can run Windows programs on the Win4Lin server and export the programs display to the Linux work station. Appropriate licensing required of course.

At very least this will give you a stepping stone for a full migration as the Open Source stuff matures or some of the programs you use become available on Linux.

You may be already doing this, It might be of value to email all your Windows only programs manufacture and let them know that you are moving off Windows and would like to see if there is any plan to migrate they software to Linux.. This way they know that there are users out there that want to use there products but can not on Linux. Just an idea.

Keep up the great work and keep the posts coming. You are not alone out here and we will all do what we can to help you out.

Thanks and hope this helps in some way.

Rich Houston

By: Yaakov

Yaakov — Tue, 20 Mar 2007 13:25:31 +0000

There are a few other options to running windows programs besides WINE. There are a number of emulators and virtual machines that allow you to run a Windows session inside of Linux. Effectively, you are still using a ’separate’ machine to run all your Windows apps, but this isn’t a physical piece of hardware. You could even pass around the image of your windows session between computers, which is useful for machine upgrades, machine management, thin clients, etc…

You might want to begin looking at VMWare and Xen as they are both good solutions. There are certainly many more (fanboys included) but those two are just the first two names to pop into my head this morning.