I gave up on LiveCode on Linux some years ago. Last week I downloaded and installed one of the v5.x installers from my LiveCode account, and installed it on Mint Linux. As soon as I started LiveCode, it hung. Luckily, as it started, the LiveCode window was smaller than the monitor - as even when I started the task killer to kill it, the task killer could not get access to any portion of the screen in which the LiveCode window was located.
If I'd been able to get LiveCode to work, I was prepared to pay for Linux deployment. As I couldn't, I saved myself some money (for about the 3rd or 4th year running). To my recollection, I've had trouble with LiveCode on Mint, OpenSuse and CentOS - 3 of the top 7 distros on distrowatch.org. I can't even recollect if I ever got it to work satisfactorily on Debian or Ubuntu - I'm sure I tried. I think I might have it installed on an Ubuntu laptop, so when I get back, I'll have a look (just to satisfy my own belief that it was a cause worth giving up on). The money I saved on paying for only the minimum that I need from Runrev bought me a new Macbook Air (a device I love, so I'm not complaining -- even though I hate the direction in which Apple is going). Bernard On Sun, Apr 1, 2012 at 7:08 PM, Richard Gaskin <ambassa...@fourthworld.com> wrote: > So the Linux version costs twice as much for half the features, making > it roughly four times more expensive. > > Not an easy sales proposition for even my closest Linux-loving friends. _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
