On Friday 23 January 2004 13:50, vince cagud wrote: > what's the oldest distro and version combination to support?
statically link. wastes RAM a little, but not such a big deal now that memory is relatively cheap (we're not running 64K PDP-11 multitasking, multiuser boxes anymore, any video card now has more RAM than any minicomputer of the 70s (and probably the 80s too, but i'm not sure about that). > will binary-only releases be palatable to linux users? give them something. binary is better than nothing. if some people don't like it, they can keep trying to hack wine. when linux starts getting corporate mindshare in the philippines as a desktop system (the IBM experience will be very useful as a benchmark and something to point to as a successful whole company installation, whenever it is that it succeeds), many of those users will be regular users who just want a system that works, they won't really care that much about open source or source availability. even for myself, for the most part, i like open source because i can (at least in principle) fix things if they don't work. but as a practical matter, i just want something that works. i don't actually have all the time to look at source and try to figure out how it works. > what windowing toolkit to use? gtk/gnome vs qt? choose one. any one. if people complain later, ignore them. any modern distribution will run either anyway. > static or dynamically linked? static so you can ignore most distribution and distribution version issues. > rpm or deb? choose one. if ever, choose the one that has more corporate support (so i'd say, probably rpm) and then have documentation that says how to install it on the other system. or choose one for internal builds of the preferred format, and then use alien (or something similar, i haven't used alien, just the man page) to convert to the other (with manual tweaks as necessary). you could also just sidestep the RPM/DEB issue by installing a tar.gz and a setup.sh script that installes chikka and completely ignores the local packager :). it's statically linked anyway, doesn't care much about what else is on the system. > considering the questions above, i suppose it's easier for the company > to release a java app version of the TM client than a native linux one. yeah, i was going to suggest that. tiger -- Gerald Timothy Quimpo gquimpo*hotmail.com tiger*sni*ph http://bopolissimus.sni.ph Public Key: "gpg --keyserver pgp.mit.edu --recv-keys 672F4C78" you'll realize that the Net is not usable at 2400 baud. It used to be perfectly usable at 1200 baud. But these days you can't use the Web at 2400 baud because the ads are 24KB. -- Bill Joy, quoted in: http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/32780.html -- Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List [EMAIL PROTECTED] (#PLUG @ irc.free.net.ph) Official Website: http://plug.linux.org.ph Searchable Archives: http://marc.free.net.ph . To leave, go to http://lists.q-linux.com/mailman/listinfo/plug . Are you a Linux newbie? To join the newbie list, go to http://lists.q-linux.com/mailman/listinfo/ph-linux-newbie
