Greetings!!

I've been using Linux since Ubuntu 12.04, about 12 years, and I've encountered relatively few bugs and issues, even after shifting over to Kodachi and UbuntuStudio, making me a BELIEVER in Linux.

Like many Linux users, I've become very distrustful of Microshaft and Bill Gates and have tried to steer clear of as many of their products as possible.

My company uses a program that was written using FoxPro, which I understand is exclusive to Winblows. Does anyone know of a Linux distro that is capable of running FoxPro software? (Wine in Ubuntu does not seem to work for me.)

Any help telling Bill Gates to jump in the lake would be GREATLY appreciated!!

Mason

The simplest way I can think of is using a windows VM.
If you only use windows for that one app they won't be able to spy on you much.

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Personally, I would use the DOS version on DOSBOX or FreeDOS. The windows version MIGHT run on ReactOS (the daily image has the latest code).

It is dead our of support now, so the better answer is porting/migrating to a different database engine. If that is not possible, and it is sometimes not for legacy applications, I would run tests of the Windows versions on ReactOS.

If it does not require internet access I might isolate it and continue running it on Win7, or even XP if it will run there.

And we agree, betting your company on Microsoft and Microsoft products puts you in a HIGH RISK class on day 1, but we had to learn that from experience.

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Found some interesting links. Might these help?

https://www.recitalsoftware.com/?/ar....htm&mainFrame

My other link just went dead, but it was a successful install of Foxpro Windows into Wine. The setup threw errors, but if you ignored the errors it did finally complete setup and then worked properly.

ALL of the information I find on this is VERY dated. Sorry!

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Welcome to LinuxQuestions.

Bill Gates has not been active in Microsoft operations since 2008 or so.

Are you actually trying to run Visual FoxPro versus the DOS version? As posted it should work using wine but did you also install the runtime libraries? What version of wine are you running? I am not a wine expert but I believe VFP is a 32 bit program so is wine configured to run 32 bit programs but I believe it does not matter if running wine 9.

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Foxpro?? Even if it's visual Foxpro, the latest version was released in 2007...making it *SEVENTEEN YEARS* out of date.
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/pr...0117(v=msdn.10)

If this is for your company, you'd be far better served in migrating to anything current. Exporting the data into anything else (like MariaDB) is fairly trivial, and any decently skilled web developer can easily put a front-end on it pretty quickly.

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Thank you all for your input!! Much appreciated!!!

I'll check on that Wine version, but I installed supposedly the latest version about a year ago when I first tried to install this software on my UbuntuStudio machine. The software is called SimplyGenius, written in FoxPro, and is Windows-based. SimplyGenius is a program used in the automotive repair business to track repair orders. With the exception of this one program, pretty much everything we do is web-based, so finding a way to run SimplyGenius in Linux would be ideal for me.

Johan, a VM is such a simple possible solution, and I'm a simpleton, so I SHOULD have thought of that, but obviously I didn't. I'll check into that!! Thank you!!!

WPeckham, I'll check those links, too!! That one that was dropped off is probably just what I was looking for!! Thank YOU so much!!!

I'll try to post my findings here once I figure things out. Thank you again, everyone, for all your input!!!