[OT] Rev on Linux PPC - Would you use it?

[Pierre Sahores]

Hi Judy,

Le sam 01/11/2003 à 22:41, Judy Perry a écrit :

> My lone linux student (using an intel box I think) has complained mightily
> to me that he's had nothing but trouble trying to use the 30-day eval
> version and so has given up (and  hence won't be buying it anytime soon).
> (Mind you -- it's not like he's given me any specifics and just seemed to
> be in a complaining mood).
> 
> Do any Rev Linux users out there have any general tips or 'gotcha's' that
> they can pass along?

Because the Linux Rev's issues have probably not been extensivelly
tested under many kind of Linux distributions, a newbie can get some
troubbles in running Rev under Linux.

The best to do is to install it under a RedHat distro and to test Rev
under differents XFree86 graphical desktop managers, Gnome, first, and
KDE, last.

For my own, to avoid possibles problems, i'm still running MC 2.5 under
Linux (Suse 8 Pro x86) and Rev 2.1.1 under MacOSX (Jaguar).

Hope this help !

Best Regards, Pierre
> 
> The MacAddict review noted that Rev seems to crash unexpectedly, but I've
> honestly not had that problem since the OSX appearance manager thingy got
> fixed...  It crashes ALOT in the class lab, but the machines in there only
> have 128 MB RAM.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Judy
> 
> On Fri, 31 Oct 2003, Bill Vlahos wrote:
> 
> > I would like to deploy my apps for PPC Linux although I will continue
> > to use OS X as my primary development platform.
> >
> > I don't know if it would be easier for RunRev to resume making the
> > distribution engine for PPC Linux even if they don't make an IDE for
> > it. Obviously it would be best to have everything for every platform
> > but that would at least let me deploy for PPC Linux.
> >
> > Revolution offers the linux community exactly what it needs but doesn't
> > have...a powerful yet easy to use programming environment. If I was a
> > Linux freak I'd be all over Revolution.
> >
> > Of course having to actually buy software goes against the grain of
> > most of the linux users I know. I'd be curious to know how well any of
> > the Rev apps you folks have been selling are actually getting money
> > from linux users. I wrote an electronic phone book for my previous
> > company which the Mac and Windows community loved, but the linux users
> > looked down on it because it was a "GUI app" and they "already had
> > finger" (and that app was even free).
> >
> > Bill Vlahos
> >
> > On Friday, October 31, 2003, at 04:28  PM, Igor Couto wrote:
> >
> > > So, IF YOU WOULD CONSIDER USING A LINUX PPC VERSION OF REV, please
> > > DROP ME A LINE. If there is enough show of interest in this topic,
> > > then I will message the RunRev team, and let them know that we'd
> > > suppor their efforts in that area!
> >
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