Re: Reference (maybe Live) Distribution for Rev Linux

2010-02-10 Thread Peter Alcibiades
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Re: Reference (maybe Live) Distribution for Rev Linux

2010-02-09 Thread Richard Gaskin
Peter Alcibiades wrote: Two problems. First problem is in my Debian install, and here the problem is any sort of printing. Print card, print field, page setup. As a for example, create a field, select it (this is in the IDE) and select Print from the file menu. There seem not to be any

Re: Reference (maybe Live) Distribution for Rev Linux

2010-02-09 Thread Bernard Devlin
On Tue, Feb 9, 2010 at 6:27 PM, Richard Gaskin ambassa...@fourthworld.com wrote: PS -  An interesting side note in my testing:  While using Rev under Ubuntu I found that opening the Dictionary slowed everything in Rev to a painful crawl.  So I installed MetaCard there, and its Dictionary works

Reference (maybe Live) Distribution for Rev Linux

2010-02-08 Thread Peter Alcibiades
I've got Andre's Suse based distribution but have not yet burned to usb and fired up. However, thinking about this, there are some considerations about a reference distro, which could be a very useful possible way out of the Linux issues. Thoughts: 1) it needs to run Rev exactly as the

Re: Reference (maybe Live) Distribution for Rev Linux

2010-02-08 Thread Malte Pfaff-Brill
Hey Peter, this is an excellent idea! Of course to make this official it would require action by the mothership. But even without that, having a reference distribution where rev works without major flaws would be very empowering, as one could just point ones clients to the reference distro and

Re: Reference (maybe Live) Distribution for Rev Linux

2010-02-08 Thread Richard Gaskin
Peter Alcibiades wrote: 1) it needs to run Rev exactly as the developers expect. So, if revPrintField and multiple desktops are not supported, they should not work on the reference distribution, and the release notes should say so. Or, if they are, the release notes should say so, and they

Re: Reference (maybe Live) Distribution for Rev Linux

2010-02-08 Thread Bernard Devlin
On Mon, Feb 8, 2010 at 12:35 PM, Richard Gaskin ambassa...@fourthworld.com wrote: revPrintField:  What is the nature of the problem with that command on Linux?  I searched for those terms in the RQCC and came up empty - what's the RQCC #?  I wonder if it's something we may be able to fix

Re: Reference (maybe Live) Distribution for Rev Linux

2010-02-08 Thread Andre Garzia
Folks, I am building VM images, USB Images and LiveCD. It is SuSe based and Gnome based. I would not switch to build in any other distro such as debian or slackware for they do not provide anything like susestudio which is the only way I can use my free time to build a distro for us. SuSe is a

Re: Reference (maybe Live) Distribution for Rev Linux

2010-02-08 Thread Peter Alcibiades
, and a reference system on which it has been seen working. Or what is not supposed to work, and what reference system it has been shown not to work on, that will do too. Clarity! -- View this message in context: http://n4.nabble.com/Reference-maybe-Live-Distribution-for-Rev-Linux