Re: Rev's Portability

Ditto Jim! By the way, an excellent substitute for Corel in Linux nowadays is Xara Xtreme. You cannot import Corel files into it unfortuntately, but apart from that they have done a really smashing job with their Linux version. Just a detail... Bob --

Re: Rev's Portability

Jim Ault wrote: I think you need to look at several solutions to the cross platform issues, as well as your pendrive solution. Oh, most certainly, Jim. But for a number of applications, it would be a useful solution. Jim Ault

Busco formacion en espa?ol

Rufino Sarabia wrote: ¿Hay alguien que pueda dar formación en Revolution en español?. Saludos a toda la lista. - Rufino: I don't know any Spanish, but perhaps I could answer one or two simple questions in Portuguese. But I know very lit

Rev's Portability

One of Rev's great characteristics is its portability. A Rev standalone doesn't need a setup. If you create an app in Windows, you can easily load up the same project in Macintosh, create a new standalone, and provided no adjustments to the handling of the file system are needed, the app will r

[OT] Fun with icons on Linux

Richmond Mathewson wrote: For what its worth - my few thoughts: 1. Microsoft Windows has, for better or worse, successfully dominated the desktop market. 2. Linux, being a diffuse, amorphous "thing" (unlike a tightly centred organisation like Microsoft) has not pumped big bucks into an advert

Re: Fun with Icons on Linux

Robert John Warren wrote: > To launch an important and promising RAD system for Linux > which is riddled with bugs is NOT the way to MAKE a market. > To neglect it for years on end is also NOT the way to MAKE > a market. Richard Gaskin Managing Editor, revJournal wrote:

Re: Fun with Icons on Linux

Peter Alcibiades wrote: And finally, the Linux development people don't seem, my casual impression, to be very oriented towards RR type stuff. They are much more hard core. Whenever you read the FAQ on the rapid development packages, they always seem to start out by noting key contrasts with

Re: OT: Why you shouldn't give away your shareware for free

Ian Wood wrote: Roughly paraphrased as: Hey buddy, can we give away 5,000 copies of your app for free? What? Why on Earth would I want to create an extra 5,000 potential customer support issues for no money, and p

Re: [ANN] SpamGobbler for Linux

Dear Colleagues, Further to my communication a few days ago (see below), I have now extended the "Download and Release Notes" to show how quickly and easily SpamGobbler can be adapted to work on other Linux distros. There are now brief instructions and a screenshot of it running under the wond

[ANN] SpamGobbler for Linux

Colleagues: The first version of SpamGobbler for Linux is now available. For a brief functional summary, please visit: http://www.howsoft.com/linux/ For screenshots and setup/operating instructions, see: http://www.howsoft.com/linux/spamgobbler/ Even if you don't wish to download, you might

Re: [ANN] Galaxy 1.5 Birthday Special

Stephen Barncard wrote: I'm embarrassed to say this, but as the RevNoob, 1) Why is Galaxy compelling? I see it's a replacement for the RR IDE, but so what? So What? (Great Miles Davis tune). Obviously you haven't used it yet. It's amazing and useful. The most striking thing about it is that

[OT] Life and attitudes on the UR-List

Dear Colleagues, There is an article at my private site called ""Brazil: Heaven or Hell" - http://www.bobsite.org/brazil/ - which some of you might be interested in. It was written many years ago while I was still struggling to understand life and attitudes in Brazil (my adopted country). Were I