win4lin slow

[hubiedo]

i am completely on ubuntu now with win4lin for two applications that i really need, act 6.0 and quicken. i am testing komposer and it looks like like it will take the place of dreamweaver ok. but the other two i really need.

the problem is that the win4lin is so slooooooooow! does anybody have any suggestion of a virtual set up that is not so slow. i would like something that is public license not commercial. does anyone have something working that will run these two application at anything near normal speeds.

[festlig-faetter]

Have you tried Wine? It works fine for me, although a couple of .dll files is missing...

Jesper

[linux_tech]

For windows apps in linux, maybe Virtual box or vmware workstation

Instead of quicken maybe you can try http://www.p2paccounts.com/downloads.html
Also
KMyMoney ( http://kmymoney2.sourceforge.net/ )
GNUcash ( http://www.gnucash.org/ )
Gnofin ( http://gnofin.sourceforge.net/ )
Grisbi ( http://www.grisbi.org/ )

[chrisod]

Running Windows in a virtual machine will probably give you better performance than Win4Lin. However, the real question is do you really need Act and QB? Act is just a contact manager - there are plenty of web based alternatives that provide the same function. Or you could run SugarCRM, which is a open source alternative to Salesforce.com. QB I can see being harder to replace.

[w4ett]

Quickbooks runs rather well on Crossover Linux. I know you said you wanted a free application, but they do have a free trial....it might be worth a try.

http://www.codeweavers.com/about/general/press/?id=20050330

[DGortze380]

look at gnucash

[hubiedo]

you guys gave me some great ideas to try out! i have tried kmoney and it works good. the problems with changing act 6.0 it that my office system is windoz, i either have to convert my act to a system that runs on a cross platform win and linux or i am stuck. i haven't been able to find anyway to convert all the data in act. for my purposes it would seem that a better virtual machine is the ticket until i can find a way to convert this data / import it to something else. i think i will try wine and see if that helps.

i will also look at the other contact mgmt appl that were mentioned, maybe they can import the data etc.

any other ideas and suggestions are greatly appreciated

[hubiedo]

well i got Quicken 2000 basic to work very well on wine. Now to find a solution for Act 6.0 which works very well under win4lin but is slow, as stated prev. the problem i see is converting the data etc. to any other CRM software. sugar crm looks to be the best candidate.