Installing 6.0.2 OSS

[Richmond]

On 05/25/2013 10:21 PM, stephen barncard wrote:
> In other words --- Richmond is VERY VERY happy about Livecode today.

Indeed!

And so should loads and loads of teachers and would-be programmers round 
the world.

Do the Maths:

Tatty old computer = $20

Old monitor (Res 1024 x 768) = $20

Keyboard & Mouse 'cheap as chips'

Free Linux OS

Free Livecode.

AND, quite often there are schools who have had second-hand PCs dumped 
on them
by well-meaning Western charities which could be put to good use exactly 
in this way.

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> On Sat, May 25, 2013 at 12:09 PM, Richmond <richmondmathewson at gmail.com>wrote:
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>> I have just installed LC 6.0.2 OSS on Ubuntu 8.04.3
>>
>> "So what?" I hear you say.
>>
>> Because that Ubuntu 8.04 was running on a Pentium III
>> with 256 MB RAM.
>>
>> "So what? How long is Richmond going to wibble on in this vein?"
>>
>> A LONG TIME Because the Open Source Version of Livecode
>> is all about empowering many people who do not have
>> buckets of moolah to run fancy right-up-to-date machines.
>>
>> Oh, and, while I'm here: I connected my favourite monitor
>> of all time that I fished out of a dumpster in front of a
>> supermarket in Scotland 9 years ago.
>>
>> Richmond.
>>
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