Debian, Sidux, Ubuntu, reference distributions for Rev

[Andre Garzia]

Bernard,

RevBrowser for linux is way over due, now, have you tried creating a
xulrunner window on linux, it might be able to create a multi window app
where one of the windows is a browser.

(ugly as hell hack but a hack is better than no solution)

On Sat, Apr 17, 2010 at 9:14 AM, Bernard Devlin <bdrunrev at gmail.com> wrote:

> I understand RunRev working with Ubuntu as "a standard".  However, I
> think Peter makes some very good points concerning why Debian should
> be the reference for getting things working.
>
> I stopped my software update subscription for Rev some 6 months ago,
> after about 7 years of continuous subscription.  When RunRev decide to
> deliver a RevBrowser component for Linux, I'll start again.
>
> Bernard
>
> On Sat, Apr 17, 2010 at 9:56 AM, Peter Alcibiades
> <palcibiades-first at yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
> > The problem is, every six months we have a new Ubuntu.  Rather less often
> we
> > have a new Fedora.  The old release is not being updated in the meantime
> > (understandably), you are only getting security updates.  It is not a
> > rolling release distro.
> >
> > So, if you say you have certified, which means tested, against your
> > reference distro, and its Ubuntu, and you have tweaked it so everything
> > works, OK, which Ubuntu?  Here are some dates:
> >
> > 8.04.................. .2008-04-24  (we are now on 8.04.4 I think)
> > 8.10 ...................2008-10-30 (we now seem to be on 8.10.3)
> > 9.10....................2009-10-29 (seems not to have had later versions)
> >
> > 10.04 is now in Beta so will be out shortly
> >
> > You cannot 'standardize on Ubuntu' or use it as a reference distro.  Its
> > meaningless.  You have to specify a release.  The Ubuntus out there in
> the
> > market are not one release, they are a mixed lot of generations and
> updates,
> > and they are changing all the time.
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