Using FTM in Linux

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

David A' Rebel...

I haven't but then I like Gramps.

NHill...

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.

melsonr...

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).

Robert Heiling...

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

Bob Melson

melsonr...

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.

Robert Heiling...

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.

Robert Heiling...

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

Sleepy Ol' Bob

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

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.