On Thursday 27 July 2006 04:20, Craig Ringer wrote: > Plinnell wrote: > > On Wednesday 26 July 2006 19:42, Anthony Brock (KG4AGD) wrote: > >> I just installed Scribus 1.3.3 on a Windows 98 SE machine. When I > >> try to start the program, it loads up initially but does not > >> complete. I get the error EXCEPTION_ACCESS_VIOLATION, stating > >> Scribus has performed an illegal operation. In the details, it is > >> an "Invalid Page Fault in Module QT-MT3.DLL." Any solutions to this > >> so I can get Scribus to run on Windows 98 SE? > >> > >> Thanks, > >> A. Brock > >> > >> _______________________________________________ > >> Scribus mailing list > >> Scribus at nashi.altmuehlnet.de > >> http://nashi.altmuehlnet.de/mailman/listinfo/scribus > > > > Hi, > > > > There is no solution. Scribus will not run on Win98SE, nor will it in > > the future. > > > > Scribus as you learned will not run on any version of Windows except > > for Windows 2000 or newer. > > > > Scribus relies on many features in Windows 2000 and XP which are not > > in Win9x. > > Not only that, but Microsoft has now dropped support for Windows 98. > That means there are no security fixes coming out for it. Mozilla.org > has also dropped support for it in Firefox 2.0, so your browser choices > will soon be a dangerously insecure version of MSIE a version of Firefox > that'll probably also turn out to have the usual round of security > holes. The security situation is likely to continue to degenerate in > other ways too, but the browser will probably be the worst. > > Given that win98 generally only appears on fairly old machines that > won't be exactly zippy running Scribus, don't work wonderfully with > large amounts of RAM, etc, it's really not an appealing porting prospect > even if it were practical. That's doubly true given that all these > machines really need retirement or an OS upgrade (XP or Linux) so there > hardly seems any point to the port.
Hence the release of XP Fundamentals. See http://bink.nu/Article7745.bink Craig -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://nashi.altmuehlnet.de/pipermail/scribus/attachments/20060727/e1bea719/attachment.pgp
