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 -- -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "NLUG" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nlug-talk?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "NLUG" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/nlug-talk/CALdmzXYuKHqjcnk74DRmsMKzogWzyQE%2Bje2JU%2Boy%2B_PZxqRKTw%40mail.gmail.com.
