From: "Tony Ingenoso" 

I've heard that Linspire runs the whole system as root and read some quote
from the company prez trying to defend such insanity.  Are you sure this is
what you want .

 wrote in message
news:50adcb.c39640{at}harborwebs.com...
> Anyone had any experiece with the Win4LinHome by Dan Perlman
> that purports to enable Linspire 4.5 and 5.0 (as well as SuSE)
> to run programs writen for Win9x.
>
> I recently bought a PowerSpec 1405 with Linspire 4.5 I would
> like to be able to use the Win9x genealogy programs such as
> Legacy and Family History that I have used for many years so
> that I have considerable data bases invested therein.
>
> When I asked somewhile ago if the Win9x GEDCOM files would be
> recognized and used to input its data in linux genealogy programs,
> GRAMPS and Genealogy Manager; I got zero responses so I gather
> the GEDCOM file method of shareing data among Win9x is not possible
> with linux genealogy programs such as GRAMPS and Genealogy Manager
> so this Win4Lin looks interesting if it works as claimed.
>
> Ciao, Ack.
>
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>  # SLMR 2.1a # Use yesterday's software to create tomorrow errors today

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