Anand Kumria wrote:
>
> On Sun, 9 Jan 2000, Terry Collins wrote:
>
> > On www.woa.com.au -> Terry Collins -> ancestors I have a Geneweb
> > database running, which should be allowing everyone to search the
> > database. Unfortunately, it only allowing internal network machines to
> > do this and rejecting access to all machines that come through the
> > firewall.
>
> Bizarre. I've just speak the last couple of days hunting down
> genealogy software for *nix (there is very little). I just started
> writing one.
For people who may be interested;
I know of and use Lifelines and Geneweb.
Lifelines (vm1.nodak.edu/lines-l) has a command line start with text
screen. It has just gone open source (MIT licence). You use your
favorite editor to enter data in Gedcom format, plus whatever you want
to add. Its strength is the reports and it has a scripting language if
you want to roll your own. Plus, a lot of people have contributed
utilities.
Geneweb (http://cristal.inria.fr/~ddr/GeneWeb) is really a WWW server.
You use a broser to set it up and access it (basic setup - you use the
command line for complex setups) You can have three levels of access;
Public only shows the names of people less that 100 years and full
details of older people. "Friend" allows people to see full details on
all and "Wizard" allows you to update the db. Doesn't give you the
freedom theat lifelines does, but you can easily link an image of the
person to show on the WWW pages.
I prefer the freedom of Lifelines to store ancillary information/life
details/etc. I have only made one file transfer from lifelines into
Geneweb (not all came across and I had to run it manually at the
command line to get it to work). Still haven't tried the otherway.
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