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habibbijan
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  		   Posted 12/26/2006 4:57 PM (GMT -5)    Quote This PostAlert An Admin About This Post.
Unofficially, of course.

Out of curiosity, I decided to see if Finale 2007 would install and run on the Linux operating system. The results were surprising. I documented the process here (including screenshots):

www.habibbijan.com/articles/run-finale-2007-on-linux-with-wine/

It's more of a proof-of-concept than a setup I'd want to use daily, but it works. It's a start.

Brian Bondari
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Constantly campaigning for Finale on Linux....

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  		   Posted 12/27/2006 11:10 AM (GMT -5)    Quote This PostAlert An Admin About This Post.
Thanks for post. I tried it with F2001b a while back and ran into the font problem. If midi, registration, and GPO get solved someday (and the latest version of Quicken is compatible) I would seriously consider making the change, particularly since MS will stop supporting Win2000 one of these days.

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  		   Posted 12/27/2006 6:07 PM (GMT -5)    Quote This PostAlert An Admin About This Post.
Great!

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  		   Posted 12/31/2006 7:48 AM (GMT -5)    Quote This PostAlert An Admin About This Post.
0. Interesting is that this topic was not so interesting for others.
1. I am happy to see that such powerful program as Finale works on Linux
2. MM can think to make (maybe only one) version of Finale for Linux: "Finale LX", since many people would like to have it and lastly to move to Linux.
3. Many people think that Linux is kind of "anti monopolistic and anti copyrightistic" and all people that use Linux are suspicious in that way. It is not true. Linux is superior in security and flexibility comparing with Windows, and many big companies and government have their computers and systems based on Linux (mostly in Europe).
4. Unfortunately, there no so many commercial software for Linux, and thus many consider it as unprofessional and with the lack of usability. It can be true, but once the big companies (such Adobe) will make a break and make some versions available for Linux. It is very strange that it didn't happen earlier, since OSX is Unix based.
5. I wish good luck for new Finale LX! smilewinkgrin

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  		   Posted 12/31/2006 9:31 AM (GMT -5)    Quote This PostAlert An Admin About This Post.
With all due respect, this is all very nice, but how is a semi-functional non activated installation of Finale useful?
Also Finale can be a difficult enough package to deal with in supported environments, why should anyone want to deal with
it in an unsupported environment like WINE under Linux?

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  		   Posted 12/31/2006 9:57 AM (GMT -5)    Quote This PostAlert An Admin About This Post.
I am not speaking about Wine, just about the future version of Finale for Linux - which can be ordinary installed and activated.
And... Maybe cheaper version of nonsuported for Linux...

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  		   Posted 12/31/2006 5:05 PM (GMT -5)    Quote This PostAlert An Admin About This Post.
Update: activation works just fine. I still have not tried installing GPO (Finale edition), though the way everything has been going so far, it may work without issue as well!

So far, the only thing that I have tried that has NOT worked is MusicXML export, though I'm sure there must be others.

Concerning the "usefulness" of this endeavor, I hope that I don't have to justify curiosity and the desire to progress. Thank goodness for people who love to experiment, develop, and push the envelope! Without them our world would stagnate. There are people (like myself) who realize the growing potential of the Linux operating system, and this project is useful to them.

Brian Bondari
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  		   Posted 1/2/2007 1:19 PM (GMT -5)    Quote This PostAlert An Admin About This Post.
"Concerning the "usefulness" of this endeavor, I hope that I don't have to justify curiosity and the desire to progress. Thank goodness for people who love to experiment, develop, and push the envelope! Without them our world would stagnate. There are people (like myself) who realize the growing potential of the Linux operating system, and this project is useful to them."

I have no problems with experimenting with non-standard unsupported configurations, I do it all the time at work. I simply question how useful the running of Finale in an unsupported environment can be anything other than a curiosity to the average user of this site, who may be having enough problems getting Finale to behave in its supported environments, let alone an unsupported one.

Amateur Composer of non-commercial music

Finale 2006a (and every version since 1.0)
full GPO(Kontact 1.1.8.003)
Dell Dimension 4550
2.4ghz P4
1024Mb RAM,
win XP Pro SP2+

Dell Optiplex GX270
3.2Ghz P4 HT
4096Mb RAM,
win XP Pro SP2+

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  		   Posted 1/2/2007 2:08 PM (GMT -5)    Quote This PostAlert An Admin About This Post.
oldman said...

I have no problems with experimenting with non-standard unsupported configurations, I do it all the time at work. I simply question how useful the running of Finale in an unsupported environment can be anything other than a curiosity to the average user of this site, who may be having enough problems getting Finale to behave in its supported environments, let alone an unsupported one.


...because if people begin to get Finale successfully running on an unsupported environment, then the day may come when MM adds it to the list of environments that it does support.

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  		   Posted 2/22/2008 7:05 PM (GMT -5)    Quote This PostAlert An Admin About This Post.
I'm not much of a computer guy, but Finale was 90% of my reason not to go to Linux, because I wasn't sure how well it would work. At least I now know there is a possibility of it working. Thanks.

And I do see this thread as very significant. For someone who uses the computer primarily for music, any proof that something works on Linux is great for me. I don't have to worry about dishing out so much money to Microsoft. It still bugs me that when they came out with the 360, they were looking for bands to "donate" their songs, rather than pay for them. Sure, it gets exposure, but so do paid gigs.


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  		   Posted 1/17/2010 10:02 PM (GMT -5)    Quote This PostAlert An Admin About This Post.
Very cool; I am having a little trouble trying to get Finale 2005 up and running on my Ubuntu Linux computer. I just really started in Linux and am having a bit of a learning curve problem. Has anyone else tried 2005 or 2006?

Thanks,
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  		   Posted 1/18/2010 8:13 AM (GMT -5)    Quote This PostAlert An Admin About This Post.
Ubuntu's web site should have a list of compatible programs.

John

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  		   Posted 1/18/2010 2:04 PM (GMT -5)    Quote This PostAlert An Admin About This Post.
There was a mention of Finale 2005 in the thread Finale 2009 and Linux .

Fritz

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