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by BobM
Sun Jul 27, 2008 10:30 pm
Forum: General Questions and Discussion
Topic: Speaking of Linux
Replies: 11
Views: 8748

I can understand about not wanting to feed M$, but I hate to say it, Windows getting corrupted regularly is very unusual. If I had to point to a cause, I'd say user error. Not all that unusual in my experience. It happened regularly at work. It highly depends on your combination of low-level utilit...
by BobM
Sun Jul 27, 2008 10:00 pm
Forum: General Questions and Discussion
Topic: Speaking of Linux
Replies: 11
Views: 8748

No, the database is not compatible as there have been major table changes. I can understand the desire to move of Windows, however, Windows XP SP3 iis fairly rock solid (should be after 8 years). If you have a fairly recent machine (post 2003), adding another GIG of RAM will definitely help speed i...
by BobM
Sun Jul 27, 2008 2:17 pm
Forum: General Questions and Discussion
Topic: Speaking of Linux
Replies: 11
Views: 8748

I've had varying degrees of success getting PowerChurch to run under Linux. It seems that the versions prior to 8 run ok under Wine, but the later versions - not so much. Linux works fine as a file server to host PowerChurch data files though. I haven't tried Crossover to see how that works. True e...