[Coco] Looking for a working DriveWire 4 setup

[Christopher Barnett Fox]

I appreciate your candor, Aaron. Thanks for saving me some time.

Since the browser functionality is unsupported, is there any good reason
to run DriveWire with a graphical interface? If not, I may be able to
streamline things substantially and just run a linux distro with no GUI at
all.

Christopher



On 20141207, 22:15, "Aaron Wolfe" <aawolfe at gmail.com> wrote:

>That is interesting.   I think you're the first person to mention using
>it.  I hadn't put much work into that kind of thing because of an apparent
>lack of interest, so I'm afraid maybe you'll find the browser stuff
>unreliable on any platform.  It was kind of a weekend experiment that I
>thought nobody cared about and abandoned.  None of the auto disk
>download/creation stuff is very well tested so if you run into the same
>problems on another platform I worry it may just be poorly done.  I don't
>want you to waste time on something that isn't going to work out.
>On Dec 7, 2014 8:27 PM, "Christopher Barnett Fox" <cbfox01 at syr.edu> wrote:
>
>> Aaron,
>>
>> While DriveWire 4 on OS X was unstable, I found the browser to be
>> incredibly helpful. Much easier than copying & pasting URLs. Maybe once
>>I
>> was more comfortable with the environment, and had a set of disk images
>>I
>> use often all set up and ready to go, I could forego the browser. But,
>>for
>> someone just getting back into the CoCo, I find it invaluable.
>>
>> Christopher
>>
>>
>> On 20141207, 19:56, "Aaron Wolfe" <aawolfe at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> >When the last release was done I tested on the current OSX, Debian,
>> >Ubuntu,
>> >OpenSUSE and Centos IIRC.  It worked "out of the box" on all back then,
>> >this was probably late 2012.  So if you go back to that era with any
>> >mainstream distribution it might be better.
>> >
>> >If all that's not working is the browser, you're missing very little.
>>Its
>> >designed to just give up on the browser and carry on in the event of
>> >trouble because its of so little value. I really wouldn't spend much
>>time
>> >worrying about that.
>> > On Dec 7, 2014 5:37 PM, "Christopher Barnett Fox" <cbfox01 at syr.edu>
>> >wrote:
>> >
>> >> Evening, fellow CoConauts,
>> >>
>> >> I've been struggling to get a fully-functional DriveWire 4 setup
>>going.
>> >> I'd like to know what OS & JVM folks have found that work well.
>> >>
>> >> Problems I've encountered include stability issues on OS X 10.9.x and
>> >> 10.10.x, and missing features (e.g. no browser support) on most Linux
>> >> distributions I've tried, including 32- and 64-bit flavors of
>>Xubuntu,
>> >> Ubuntu and Linux Mint.
>> >>
>> >> Just looking for recommendations on what's working for folks. While I
>> >> could run Windows for this purpose, I'd rather avoid it if possible.
>>Any
>> >> Linux distro would be fine, including older releases if necessary.
>> >>
>> >> Thanks!
>> >>
>> >> Christopher
>> >>
>> >>
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