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Originally Posted by stephanos
I've developed exclusively for Linux myself. I find that the platform is very generous to developers and provides unlimited options and toolkits to develop with.
Gord, I've used Linux since the late 90's and I don't understand where you're coming from. Sure there are lots of folks wanting to try their hands at developing a Linux distribution, but the ones that have been around a long time, Slackware, Debian, Redhat etc... are very polished. I personally use Gentoo and have now for years. I can't imagine using Windows (although it's a lot better than it was when I gave it up back in '99), and using OSX sounds about as much fun as a nail in the foot (yes I've tried it, and *blech* Oh and OSX has nothing to do with BeOS. OSX is built on top of Darwin, which is a fully POSIX compliant UNIX OS). Now I don't know much about XCode, except that it's based on GCC, which is a fantastic compiler. I don't know which libc OSX offers, nor which bintools, but I imagine they're pretty decent.
EDIT: I now see, after reading his blog that Brandon isn't fond of developing with just Vim and a compiler. IDE's *blech*! ;P
Concerning SwordSearcher. I'd like to say that it runs flawlessly on my machine under WINE. Here's what I got running, and my configuration:
I'm running the current wine version 1.1.12 which supports 64bit applications and can now perform subpixel rendering (though they b0rked it and messed up the registry).
If you want to try running SwordSearcher in version 1.1.12 make sure you fix the registry by creating a file called "wine_fontsmoothing.reg" with the following contents:
and then run `regedit wine_fontsmoothing.reg` and you'll be set.
Not sure how well wine works on OSX, but I know folks do use it there.
Peace and Love,
Stephen
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Thank you Stephen for the tips on wine. I have an old box in the office I have Ubuntu on and wine runs SwordSearcher on that just great, considering that it's only a 950celeron chip with only 512 ram. The hard drive on that old beaut is probably razor thin from all the installs of linux that have been on it since RH5, I think in the mid to late 90's. Back then I thought it was cute to crash all the little bomb icons, and it only took me 4 days to get the printer to work. The closest I came to getting Gentoo installed was it's derivative Sabyan. I'm from the old school technology wise, so if I can't point and click, I don't use it. (Terminal Windows for geeks is not my forte).
My reference to BEOS should have been FreeBSD, as I was too impatient to type rather the look up what I was talking about.
With your advance knowledge and understanding of Linux, it's no wonder you don't like OSX, but for an old curmudgeon like me that only knows the 3 buttons of a mouse, OSX fits right into my comfort zone, and desire to not have to learn new geeky stuff, or EVER open a terminal window.
If I find a good STEP reader that will work on my Mac, I'll blow windows off my old laptop and give whatever linux flavor I feel drawn to at that time.
For now, on my laptop, I have and extensive book library that I use with BibleExplorer4 and the STEP reader, (that I don't have SS modules for) and only when I study to I fire it up for that reason only.
It is refreshing to yak linux, I gave up on the testing, installing, and forum chat as I found it was cutting in to way to much of my family time, and time for the Lord.