Re: Kudos to Osem

2009-12-28 Thread Oron Peled
On Monday, 28 בDecember 2009 09:45:10 Shachar Shemesh wrote: Amichai Rotman wrote: (an executable file on the root directory of the CD) using WINE without any special settings. ... I wanted to share with fellow Linuxers, and give kudos when kudos are due. Just a clarification -

Re: Kudos to Osem

2009-12-28 Thread Shachar Shemesh
Oron Peled wrote: The special thanks for Osem should be for not being clueless -- E.g: let's use ActiveX, or even better, SilverPlight ;-) I'll gladly thank them IF I find out it was a conscious decision - i.e. - that it was not the random choice of contractor that made them choose those

Re: Kudos to Osem

2009-12-28 Thread Elazar Leibovich
Just a small remark. Using Silver(p?)light would be IMHO a much better choice for cross platform support. Currently Mono supports Silverlight 2.0, and its upcoming releases would support much more. Actually, a major benefit of the CLR environment is its cross platform support due to Mono. In

RE: Kudos to Osem

2009-12-28 Thread ronys
, December 28, 2009 11:17 AM To: Oron Peled Cc: linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il Subject: Re: Kudos to Osem Oron Peled wrote: The special thanks for Osem should be for not being clueless -- E.g: let's use ActiveX, or even better, SilverPlight ;-) I'll gladly thank them IF I find out it was a conscious

Re: Kudos to Osem

2009-12-28 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Mon, Dec 28, 2009 at 12:12:20PM +0200, Elazar Leibovich wrote: Just a small remark. Using Silver(p?)light would be IMHO a much better choice for cross platform support. Sure. Microsoft was even kind enough to promise it won't assert any of its patent rights with this technology till further

Re: Kudos to Osem

2009-12-28 Thread Baruch Siach
Hi Tzafrir, On Mon, Dec 28, 2009 at 10:55:17AM +, Tzafrir Cohen wrote: On Mon, Dec 28, 2009 at 12:12:20PM +0200, Elazar Leibovich wrote: Just a small remark. Using Silver(p?)light would be IMHO a much better choice for cross platform support. Sure. Microsoft was even kind enough to

Re: Kudos to Osem

2009-12-28 Thread Dotan Cohen
2009/12/28 Amichai Rotman amic...@iglu.org.il: Hi all, I am a father to two small children (3 and 4.5). I recently bought an Osem Dubonim value pack that included a Game CD staring the Hop Channel characters in the bag. I admit I was skeptic as for the usability of this CD under Linux. I was

Re: Kudos to Osem

2009-12-28 Thread Oron Peled
On Monday, 28 בDecember 2009 12:12:20 Elazar Leibovich wrote: Just a small remark. Using Silver(p?)light would be IMHO a much better choice for cross platform support. Currently Mono supports Silverlight 2.0, and its upcoming releases would support much more. Actually, a major benefit of the

Re: Kudos to Osem

2009-12-28 Thread Michael Shiloh
Shachar Shemesh wrote: Oron Peled wrote: The special thanks for Osem should be for not being clueless -- E.g: let's use ActiveX, or even better, SilverPlight ;-) I'll gladly thank them IF I find out it was a conscious decision - i.e. - that it was not the random choice of contractor

Kudos to Osem

2009-12-27 Thread Amichai Rotman
Hi all, I am a father to two small children (3 and 4.5). I recently bought an Osem Dubonim value pack that included a Game CD staring the Hop Channel characters in the bag. I admit I was skeptic as for the usability of this CD under Linux. I was surprised - it works just fine! I am running

Re: Kudos to Osem

2009-12-27 Thread Shachar Shemesh
Amichai Rotman wrote: (an executable file on the root directory of the CD) using WINE without any special settings. ... I wanted to share with fellow Linuxers, and give kudos when kudos are due. Just a clarification - shouldn't kudos where due go to Wine and Ubuntu? Shachar -- Shachar