Linux deployment . . .

[Richmond Mathewson]

On 29/01/2010 01:55, Sarah Reichelt wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 29, 2010 at 1:49 AM, Richard Gaskin
> <ambassador at fourthworld.com>  wrote:
>    
>> Richmond Mathewson wrote:
>>      
>>> How many users of this list think that RunRev are wasting their time,
>>> effort and limited
>>> resources continuing development of a Linux version ?
>>>        
>> Count me among them.
>>      
> In the "iPadding around" thread, you seemed to be in support of RunRev
> continuing Linux development.
> But here you say you think they are wasting their time.
>
> Confused.....
>    

I do not think RunRev are wasting their time developing for Linux; far 
from it.
This is a question that is a real question rather than a rhetorical one.

>
>    
>> When we look at where Linux is being used I see enormous opportunities for
>> specialized apps, even commercial ones, of the vertical sort Rev is ideally
>> suited for.
>>      
> That's interesting. I have never come across any commercial market for
> Linux apps of the sort that I thought I could create using Rev.
>
>
>    
>> Lest we forget, where would we be without publicly-funded software?  OS X is
>> BSD at its core, created at publicly-funded UC Berkeley.  And the first web
>> browser, Mosaic, which spawned Navigator and ultimately Mozilla's Firefox,
>> began life at the publicly-funded NCSA.
>>      
>
> I certainly don't expect Linux to go away, but I just don't think it
> fits well with RunRev. We can't create a browser or an operating
> system in revTalk.
>
> So I am with Richard's statement above (which may not say what he
> meant it to say) and you can also count me among the people who think
> RunRev's resources would be better allocated elsewhere.
>
> I also feel that it would be more honest of them to admit that Linux
> is a second-class citizen in the Rev world and does not have all the
> features of the other platforms. Apart from one post by Richard, every
> post that I can remember about Rev on Linux has been negative. This is
> not good for RunRev and not fair to their customers.
>
>    
Well, I for one, have been deploying EFL content and reinforcement 
standalones
across my Ubuntu boxes in my school without a single problem for 5 years.

I have nothing negative to say in this respect about RunRev on Linux.

My only 'grunt' (and I am repeating myself) is the difficulty end-users 
have in
installing a font on Linux somewhere where RunRev will 'see' it.