I first attempted to run XID Authoring Database in WINE, that resulted in cut off text and no rendering of JPG files. So I switch on my Fedora 25 system to VirtualBox running Windows 2000, but the graphics are poor. Has anyone gotten the graphics to be better in VirtualBox or has anyone gotten XID 7.0 to work in Wine? The problem with VirtualBox is that the mpg files are on Linux and there are a lot of them on an EXT3/4 formatted file system. Had WINE worked, that may not have posed a problem.
The graphics in Virtualbox are grainy. The video card is an NVIDIA GT210, the video is on a 65" Samsung HDTV. The same JPG files under gnome 3 show up fine in file manager, but they are grainy in VirtualBox. Does anyone know of a Linux compatible open source clone of XID 7.0? I'm starting to think the only reasonable solution is to make one. Did the company go under? The source code would be nice. XID for those who don't know is a Windows 98 and later database program. It apparently works on Windows 10, but the print function is broken. The install procedure for it is kludgy, you are supposed to copy it to the Documents folder executable and all on Windows. This Fedora based media computer has been superceded by PLEX, but the freenas server is shutting down now. I think one of the 4 terabyte drives is failing and probably the one with the movies on it. With the freenas server shutting down on me, I'm running 9.10 U3, it is hard to know what is lost and what is still there. _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list PLUG@lists.pdxlinux.org http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
