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Merovius
March 25th, 2007, 05:36 PM
I know that there are many people who have been trying to use this program under Ubuntu. I would like to let them know that it can be done very nicely with VirtualBox. I installed VirtualBox with Automatix. Then I installed WindowsXP SP2. (It is fully functional.) Then in Windows I installed FTM 2006. I can now start VirtualBox, start WindowsXP and have FTM run at startup. Works perfectly as far as I can see. I can even flip back and forth between Gramps and FTM at will. This had been my biggest problem under Ubuntu. Now I can pretty much use Ubuntu only if I so decide. :popcorn:
mips
March 25th, 2007, 06:41 PM
http://www.gramps-project.org/wiki/index.php?title=Main_Page
http://www.graphviz.org/
http://www.vjet.demon.co.uk/ftree/
http://cristal.inria.fr/~ddr/GeneWeb/en/index.html
http://lifelines.sourceforge.net/
http://lists.rootsweb.com/index/other/Software/LINUX-GENEALOGY.html
http://www.genealogysoftwarenews.com/linux-genealogy-live-cd/
macogw
March 25th, 2007, 09:42 PM
I know a professional genealogists who was jealous of my GRAMPS-produced charts. No GRAMPS for Windows though :p She's familiar with Linux though, so I wouldn't be surprised if she did a dual boot to use it :p
RAV TUX
March 25th, 2007, 09:47 PM
I know a professional genealogists who was jealous of my GRAMPS-produced charts. No GRAMPS for Windows though :p She's familiar with Linux though, so I wouldn't be surprised if she did a dual boot to use it :phmm very interesting....

I have always wanted to study genealogy
Merovius
March 27th, 2007, 02:02 AM
I only mentioned this because although Gramps is a fine Genealogy program, it is not FTM. It cannot open FTM files. I, like many others, have used FTM since version 1 in DOS. I'm running version 16 now. My file is almost 100 mb's and if exported to Gramps loses a VAST amount of data. I would lose hundreds of images and document scans. This file has been growing for about 20 years. Without FTM I cannot realistically switch full time to Ubuntu. Since I want to do just that an answer had to be found. What I have now works perfectly. I can now go to Linux and my files can follow me.

I might add that this system seems to allow you to do or run almost anything "windows" in Linux.