[Coco] For the love of an OS. (Steve Bjork)

[Tom Seagrove]

VM's work under Linux.....

Thanks,

Tom

On May 3, 2011, at 11:32 AM, Andrew <keeper63 at cox.net> wrote:

> Steve,
> 
> I myself would really like to try and run the new IDE from Roger (Phoenix), but if it is "Windows only" as the old one was, then I guess I won't.
> 
> I am currently running Ubuntu 10.04 - and since Phoenix is .NET based, it may work OK under Linux with Mono; I'd like to try it out, but I am hesitant to spend the money on something that I may not be able to use.
> 
> Roger - is there any kind of a system test suite - or is there a demo version? Maybe I should look on your website, first...
> 
> Anyhow - there is only one condition in which I would run a new copy of Windows on a box again:
> 
> When Microsoft apologizes to the community - both to the software and computer community in general (for their former and any current business practices - crushing businesses like Stack and Netscape), and to the open-source crowd (including Linux) as well (SCO being propped up by them during the crazy lawsuits, and a number of other things thrown at the community back in the mid-to-late 1990s - all of which were baseless, and served nothing more than to make people doubt Linux on the desktop - which is still harming us).
> 
> That's all I ask for - I'll gladly go out and buy another copy of Windows, and maybe even Visual Studio (though that piece of software is still a tough pill to swallow - just from the standpoint of cost).
> 
> I'm not holding my breath, though.
> 
> So - for the time being, I get to "miss out" on all the supposedly great Windows software, including certain items from the CoCo community (Rainbow IDE, vcc). But I still have a lot of fun, and I enjoy the software that I have under *nix - which is really more than I'll ever need or use anyhow.
> 
> Until then - the only Microsoft products I'll use will either be peripheral (hardware - I've been looking for a "broken" Kinect for robotics vision experiments), on the CoCo (can't get around DECB, I guess - but I like DECB), or old versions of Windows that I have laying around (been thinking about building a couple of old DOS/Win 3.1/95/98 boxes for old games and/or other software like graphic demos and such - and those won't be on the network, likely).
> 
> Just my 2 cents;
> 
> -- Andrew L. Ayers, Glendale, Arizona
> 
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