Thanks for all the help. Actually installed Oricle's VM VirtualBox. Have created UBUNTU 32 ad 64 bit versions. They work surprisingly well. Looking for and creating VMs for the legacy systems I have laying around. Working with getting J up on the various systems.
Beats the heck of having a bunch of old computers laying around. On Wed, Nov 21, 2012 at 10:59 AM, greg heil <ghei...@gmail.com> wrote: > Alex > > Sawfish was what Gnome used many generations ago... But now the > sawfish downloadable through their software centre is very old. To get > a current version it must be built from source. my installation is > broken, likely i made some mistake in loading it. > > Sawfish is made from a Scheme variant called Rep. Rep is barely > functional, no debugger etc. Needs reimplementation in a better > language for much faster updating and easier customising. Some > interest in the Racket community. > > i do not yet have J running on that machine so i cannot comment on GL`s > utility. > > greg > ~krsnadas.org > > -- > > from: Alex Giannakopoulos aeg...@blueyonder.co.uk > to: programm...@jsoftware.com > date: 21 November 2012 09:14 > subject: Re: [Jprogramming] A little UBUNTU help > > I've got the same on another system. Ubuntu Server installation, > Xubuntu desktop. Works dandy. Kubuntu is nice too, if somewhat > heavyweight. > > Frankly there was nothing wrong with Gnome before, IMHO, but I can't > figure where they're going with Gnome 3. I wonder if it has to do with > mobiles, Unity and the like, in which case, fine, but fergawdsake but > keep it away from our desktops! > > Is OpenGL working for you with 701gtk greg? > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
