[Coco] DriveWire frustrations

[Steven Hirsch]

On Sun, 24 May 2015, Christopher Barnett Fox wrote:

> I've been really wanting to use DriveWire, but every time I dive into it 
> I run into trouble. On my Mac, it at least works occasionally, but is 
> unreliable with frequent hangs and crashes, and on Linux (multiple 
> distributions, both 32- and 64-bit), I cannot get DriveWire to launch at 
> all. Java exceptions ruin the fun.


> So, what gives? What's the magic sauce to get this software to work? I 
> don't own any personal seats of Windows, so that's out, although from 
> what I've heard it sounds the most reliable DriveWire host.


> Any decent, up-to-date documentation available on the best Linux config 
> and installation instructions?

What sort of issues are you seeing?  In the past I had good luck running 
on Ubuntu 12.04 and currently host it on a little Seagate network 
Dockstar appliance under an Armel port of Debian.

Whose Java have you tried?  Between OpenJDK, Oracle and IBM Java, I have 
to believe that one of them will cooperate.



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