Tony Mechelynck (2008-11-25 09:00 +0100) wrote:
> SeaMonkey and Thunderbird are not only open-source and free-software
> but also cross-platform, maybe not as much as Vim but certainly more
> than Emacs.)
Your knowledge about different platforms is likely greater than mine and
I'm curious about this question of "being more cross-platform". How is
it measured in the open-source world? Is it about supporting different
operating systems? Or about different CPU architectures? Or officially
distributing more different ready-to-run builds?
Let's take SeaMonkey, Vim and Emacs as an example. First about CPU
architectures, Debian GNU/Linux builds and officially distributes all of
them for 12 different architectures:
alpha amd64 arm armel hppa i386 ia64 mips mipsel powerpc s390 sparc
Regardless of the architecture these are all Debian GNU/Linux systems so
I guess it counts as a single operating system. (SeaMonkey is called
Iceape in Debian.)
>From the projects' web sites I gathered the following information. I'm
not sure how to compare them but it looks like they are all pretty well
cross-platform.
SeaMonkey
=========
http://www.seamonkey-project.org/releases/
Official builds:
Windows (32bit)
Mac OS X
Linux (x86)
Unofficial builds:
Linux/x86_64 [only a different architecture]
OS/2
Solaris 10 (SPARC)
AIX 5L
Also, a quote from Wikipedia:
Unofficial ports exist for FreeBSD, OpenBSD, NetBSD, IRIX, OS/2,
Solaris and BeOS / magnussoft ZETA.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SeaMonkey#Portability
Vim
===
http://www.vim.org/download.php
Systems:
Unix
MS-DOS
MS-Windows
Amiga
OS/2
Macintosh
QNX
Agenda
Sharp Zaurus
HP Jornada
MS-Windows CE
Compaq Tru64 Unix on Alpha
Open VMS
RISC OS
MorphOS
[Cygwin (console)]
[Cygwin (with GTK GUI)]
Emacs
=====
http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/#Platforms
Supported platforms:
GNU/Linux
FreeBSD
AIX 4.3.3 and higher
Mac OS X
MS DOS
MS Windows
NetBSD
OpenBSD
Solaris
SunOS
Ultrix
Berkeley Unix (BSD) 4.1-4.4
Esix
Microport
SCO Unix
System V releases 0 to 4.0.4
Uniplus 5.2
Xenix
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