(Lotus) Approach Landing .. on Linux (using Proxmox, WINE & Bottles)

[Michael L]

Hello again NLUG,

Mike here 

(NLUGger since March 2013, Linux user since Aug.2018)

I'm happy to announce that Microsoft penitentiary is further in the rearview mirror than before.

In Fall'98 we started using Lotus Approach (the DB app of the Lotus123 / Lotus Smart suite), which led to a 20 to 27 year sentence in Microsoft penitentiary.  It was way ahead of MS Access in capability back then.  Lotus stopped updating it after WinXP and discontinued it; we've fortunately been able to run it on Win7/10/11, although it's supposedly officially no longer supported on Windows.

I've been thinking and thinking and thinking about of how to replace it in the event Microsoft's increasingly tyrannical garbagification makes it no longer useable.

Our network engineer Greg Cooper got it running on a Proxmox based Kubuntu VM through a combination of WINE and Bottles.

I've tested the basic functionality we need and am about to pass it on to the staff and hopefully to the 82 year old computer hater after initial staff testing.

If anyone needs more specifics on configuration to make other old Windows software run, Greg can probably provide the details.

I suspect Microsoft "Updates" has been forever automatically stealing every bit of user data, every keystroke and mouse click and browsing history at the behest of the NSA and CIA.

Thanks to everyone in NLUG for helping me escape Microsoft penitentiary.

 Mike

[Curt Lundgren]

I have finally switched 100% to Linux, after shutting off the 27" Retina iMac I have used for years.  The iMac has great hardware, its 5K display excepted, but MacOS has become more and more oppressive, demanding that I sign on to every cloud service under the sun.  A couple of new mini computers with AMD APUs (I have no idea what APU stands for) are driving a pair of 27" 4K displays for the main and 24" 1080P displays for the secondary computer.  Both computers run Ubuntu 24.04 LTS.

I've tried using Raspberry Pi 4 and 5 as desktop computers, the hardware was (barely) adequate, but I ran into too many issues with the operating system.

Becoming more familiar with the Gimp means Adobe is next to be kicked to the curb.  You don't support Linux, eh?  The transition has been easier than I thought it might be.

I stopped using Windows many years ago, thinking the Mac was the answer, but I've stopped being an Apple fanboy due to their OS.  I still have a MacBook Pro, but that mainly gets used when I'm out of town.  It has been a good experience!

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[Tilghman Lesher]

APU stands for Accelerated Processing Unit, which is basically just a
CPU and GPU on a single die. This also simplifies data transfers
between the two processing units, which no longer have to traverse the
(much slower) memory bus.

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