The Linux engine...

[Richmond]

On 02/23/2012 11:20 AM, Malte Brill wrote:
> Thanks for the feedback so far guys.
>
> Andre: I also have that impression. Now, what can we do to get it up to speed? With Linux I am always unsure if I just forgot to install something that LC depends on. A simple example: Under UBUNTU an app of mine just looks like it should. No problem with the looks over there. However under OpenSuse, patterns just will not draw. No dice. I figured out so much that this is a GNOME (working) versus KDE (not working) thing. What really scares me is the exit on signal 11 issue. How does one debug that???
>
> Pierre: I am happiely using LC Server. As long as there is no GUI involved, it really appears rock solid. Got a bit of a problem that there is no IBM system Z engine, however that is something I should have checked beforehand and indeed is rather exotic.
>
> Peter: Well, I could live with that (not for main development, but for deployment). Greatest concern is stability for larger scale applications.
>
> I miss Richard a little. He became some sort of a power Linux LC user recently, didn't he? Richard?
>
> Appreciate all penguins that care to chime in!

1. Running OK under MATE [Ubuntu 12.04 alpha]

1.1. Running OK under XFCE.

1.2. Running OK under GNOME 2 (Ubuntu 11.04), [SalineOS].

1.3. Running OK under UNITY [Ubuntu 11.10].

2. Linux PPC engine??? Does this really involve a lot of work on top of 
the Linux PC engine? I have inherited a slew of G3 iMacs that do a lot
     better with several Linux PPC distros than Mac OS anything; the 
only thing that stands in the way of my deploying them is the lack of a
     Linux PPC engine to rebuild standalones of my 75 app strong EFL 
family I use in my school.

     RunRev appear, always, to be targetting the high-end market; while 
claiming to offer something for the low-end and educational market
     (which, often enough, coincide). There are lakhs of mac PPCs out 
"there" using Linux PPC owing to licensing issues with Mac that are not
     being served by Livecode.

2.1. IBM system Z. I do think RunRev made a mistake dropping all the 
engines they used to offer; especially as there is a move away from the
        Windows/Macintosh duopoly to a more diverse universe.

3. Fonts under 'set the useUnicode to true' do not redraw so that they 
can be seen (GNOME, UNITY, MATE) [ 4.5 ]

4. Alcibiade's eyes: It's crap cross-platform, that the built-in 
documentation is made for people with 20-20 vision, and that
     there is not something like the CTRL + as per web-browsers that 
allows fonts to be resized. As someone who has only
     has spectacles for close-up (I'm long-sighted) for the last 18 
months I appreciate Alcibiade's comments more than I did previously,
     and, as such, I owe him an apology. Praying daily for one of the 
RunRev team to get glasses . . .

5. KDE: really haven't tried that as the new KDE gives me the same 
creepy feeling, eye-candy-wise as Windows 7.

Certainly RunRev need to take Linux a bit more seriously; and I find 
myself grinding my teeth a bit when I think of
all the effort that they have put into development for mobile platforms 
at the expense of getting the Linux version up to spec.

Richmond Mathewson.