Hey Whil. I haven't had a lot of success in this area.
I'm hoping to scrape together enough money to purchase a new laptop with 2G of RAM and give VM a try. I think this is most likely the best solution. I know that Ed VNCs to another Windows machine and does his development this way. It wouldn't help when you're on the road, visiting a client. I've worked with Crossover Office a bit, which is a wrapper around WINE. They also contribute back to the WINE project so I'm happy to purchase their Standard version for $39. I think that's the amount. Unfortunately, VFP stopped working with Crossover Office after version 4.2. I've been made an "Advocate" for VFP 8 and 9 for Crossover Office and I've been trying it with each version since, to no avail. You can download the older version (4.2) from their archives and it works fairly well. The XML stuff doesn't work but printing reports work! It runs about 25 to 50% slower than natively running it under Windows but I would think that's reasonable. I hope this helps you out with what you're looking for. Kevin Cully CULLY Technologies, LLC Sponsor of Fox Forward 2006! http://foxforward.net Whil Hentzen (Pro*) wrote: > Hi folks, > > I'm taking a couple steps back and looking at the big picture again. I'm > gonna put Fox on a Fedora Core box and am weighing the alternatives... > > 1. Crossover Office > 2. Wine > 3. VM (server? pro? freebie?) > 4. ? <s> > > Who out there is running VFP on a Linux box on a day-to-day basis, how > are you doing it, and what are your "if I had to do it all over again, I > would...." experiences? > > Whil > > [excessive quoting removed by server] _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
