Since it was Beta
Richard escribi?: > Hello John. > > I?m using Seven on "all" my computers, from a 3000+ Athlon(1 > core)/1GB, passing thru my laptop Athlon TK57(2 cores)/4GB up to the > Phenom 8650(3 cores)/4GB desktop. > Even an old 1300MHz Tualatin Celeron with 512MB. > > IT WORKS! > ?fine, good, bad?.... it works, flawlessly. > > 2 computers with 64bits version and 2 with 32 bits version. > The Celeron goes fine, not too fast, but enough for an office usage > and internet. > > I`m using on my both main computers the following software: > > /Mozilla Thunderbird, Mozilla Firefox, Trillian 3, Skype, WinSCP, > Putty, WinMTR > OpenOffice 3.1 > Scribus (1.3.3.13), Inkscape, Gimp, Blender, Google Sketchup > Aimp, Media Player Classic, VirtualDub (and Mod), ffdshow(k-lite+etc), > Avisynth, Jahshaka > 7zip, Infrarecorder/ > VirtualBox > qemu (emulating OLPC -XO-) > > On my laptop is also installed: xHarbour, Harbour, Borland C++ 5.5, > OpenWatcom, PellesC, Firebird 2.1 and FlameRobin, plus some special > text editors. > > And the Athlon 3000 also has: Audition and Audacity. > > Again: Flawlessly > Everytime i find a 64bits version of any program, i give it a try, > usually they work fine, unless on beta or alike. > Every 32bits program has worked as always did. > > Dont fall into scare, if you seek for issues, surely you`ll find some, > i'm always trying to find solutions, and i had never found any issue. > Anyway, there has been nothing that didn't work, except for some very > very old programs, mostly DOS, but they work on virtalbox+freedos, > bochs, qemu or any other emulator/VM. > There is also some really old hardware that does not work, but even an > old SoundBlaster live! value is working (kxdriver). > > Have a nice time reinstalling. > > > PS: BTW, almost everything is also working fine on Linux (x64)..... > > > John Beardmore escribi?: >> My laptop has trashed its XP boot disk. >> >> As I'm rebuilding from scratch, I though I might as well put a more >> up to date OS on it. >> >> This machine has to be an MS OS, but as the reviews of windows 7 >> suggest that they haven't made a complete vista of it, I thought I >> might give that a go. So... >> >> Has anybody used Scribus 1.3.6 under windows 7 ? (And for that >> matter Gimp and possibly Inkscape ?) >> >> Further, is it worth considering the 64 bit version of windows 7 ? >> Does that run the 32 bit scribus builds OK ? >> >> And in the long run, is it expected that there will be 64 bit >> compiles of Scribus for windows 7 ? >> >> >> Cheers, J/. > > > > _______________________________________________ > scribus mailing list > scribus at lists.scribus.info > http://lists.scribus.info/mailman/listinfo/scribus >
