Nancy and I gave CPRS under Wine (latest Wine release on a Debian
client) a try with her Linux based VistA server (it's running the VA
Demo software) and it worked without a hitch....in fact it ran better on
her Debian machine than my Mandrake client. There is something wacky
about Wine on Mandrake 10.1.....it seems that some config files or
libraries are missing in the Mandrake Wine RPM. They get installed with
Crossover Office but not with the Wine RPM. Good old Debian apt makes
sure all the stray bits and pieces get installed....I think I am
becoming a Debian convert. As an aside I have noticed that the Mandrake
distribution while an excellent product has become much more of a pain
for both finding and installing packages that are not on the CD's and
many packages are dropped entirely or partially too boot from version to
version.
So it looks like the Wine folks without knowing it have done the work
over the past few releases to make CPRS viable on Linux....this is
indeed a milestone and shows the real power of open source communities
at work....in this case it was simply the act of making Wine a better
product that made it possible to run CPRS with it.
Joseph
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