After browsing the forums I have discovered NT isn't currently supported for mac or linux but that's no reason not to start a thread on trying to get it working under wine. Maybe if we help with the work we can get the nice developers at NT to support NT under wine for mac and linux. I'm no programming guru but I can appreciate the efforts that would have to be made to port NT to mac or linux and it's probably not worth their time. So lets meet somewhere in the middle and try and get it working nicely under Wine.
I have had moderate success running NT in a virtual machine using VMWare workstation but running a virtual machine kind of defeats the purpose of completely running linux on a trading machine.
So to get the ball rolling I am running a triple screen Ubuntu 64bit setup with wine 1.18. Someone has kindly posted on the wine app database that we need jet, corefonts, dotnet and MDAC 2.6 to get NT partially running.
I used winetricks to install the above and NT does indeed install and run in my setup but it seems quite slow in charting. I have also managed to install esignal DM8.1 and it runs fine. I can get historical charts up but when I play with them, they are painfully slow.
At the moment I'm as far as I can manage so I'm looking for anyone else's experiences and tips to get NT running.
Hopefully we can work together to become windows free My focus is on Ubuntu as it's my preferred Linux distro but I'm definitely interested to heae from people using other distros.
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