Author: Matt Taylor
Date: 16:15:20 12/11/02
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On December 11, 2002 at 04:35:21, Daniel Clausen wrote: >On December 11, 2002 at 02:46:48, Matt Taylor wrote: > >>On December 10, 2002 at 23:32:59, ERIQ wrote: >> >>>:0 >> >>Never? > >Why so pessimistic? > >The last statement I have from the author is, that he plans to release the >Linux and the OSX version at the same time. Maybe he has problems in finding an >OSX box or he simply is too busy at the moment. Whatever it is, as long as he >doesn't officially say otherwise, I see no reason to be so pessimistic. > > >>Your best bet is Lindows or wine. The last wine build I used took some 40 MB to >>bring up Notepad. I wasn't too impressed... > > >Although I don't consider Wine a solution, your statement can easily be >misinterpreted by other people. It's not like every Wine-application will eat >40MB or more... or just start up a Windows machine and start Notepad and see how >much memory is in use already.. probably more than 40MB. > >Sargon (who still hopes for Ruffian@Linux and doesn't consider anything >involving 'Wine' as a solution (pun intended)) After twice the head-scratching, I realized it was a simple misunderstanding on my part. (The first half came when I tried to figure out what "unix ruffian NT" was.) Oops! It sounded like a porting problem. I will offer no more comments since they would be off-topic and liable to start a flame war. ;) -Matt
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