[Coco] Looking for a working DriveWire 4 setup

[Aaron Wolfe]

Its really up to you.  I don't use the GUI myself much, but most people do.
Most don't use the browser to my knowledge.  There must be something else
in the GUI that appeals to them but everyone is different.
On Dec 8, 2014 9:17 AM, "Christopher Barnett Fox" <cbfox01 at syr.edu> wrote:

> 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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