ROES Software question

[Kalrog]

Well - I am a bit stumped about where to put this (feel free to move) - so here goes...

I am switching from SmugMug to a self fulfilled store front and I am having a bit of a conundrum with the ordering software. The problem is ROES. Almost all of the labs that I am looking at offer this as the ordering solution and it is supposed to be very cross platform as long as you have java. Well, I run Linux and do have java up and running. ROES loads correctly, and it does most of the functions but it is horribly slow and I cannot complete the order. I have tried this with 2 of the 3 labs that I am considering and the results are the same. I have also eliminated hardware / computer performance as the cause.

Does anyone use ROES on a linux? Any tricks out there or alternative ordering systems?

[Kalrog]

In case anyone else experiences this... ROES does not care for OpenJava. Make sure you are using Sun's Java instead (most people do by default).

[epoh]

Have you tried running it via WINE? If all else fails, there's always the option of a tiny WinXP VM with VirtualBox (VirtualBox).

I am not a huge fan of ROES, personally, but it is pretty prevalent.


ETA: What OS (version) are you running and what Java packages do you have installed? I actually just dl'd and tested it and ROES runs perfectly on my laptop - Ubuntu 10.10 (32bit) with Sun Java6 (6.22-0ubuntu1) & the Sun-Java6-plugin.

[Kalrog]

Amy - that is exactly what I found. Use Sun Java and you are okay. BTW, I'm on KUbuntu 10.10 64bit (now - just upgraded from 10.04 last night)

[epoh]

Oh, I gotcha now. Reading Comprehension Fail.

Glad you got it working!