[Coco] DriveWire frustrations

[Christopher Barnett Fox]

Steven,

Are you using 32- or 64-bit Ubuntu 12.04? Are you using desktop, and running the DriveWire GUI, or are you running the Ubuntu server edition and running DW headless? I've only tried the OpenJDK 7 release available in the Ubuntu repositories. Issues I've had have been failure to launch altogether, the logs getting rapidly filled with Java exceptions, the built-in browser functionality doesn't work, lots of hangs or complete crashes while in use, etc. It's just generally so unreliable as to be unusable.

Christopher

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From: Coco <coco-bounces at maltedmedia.com> on behalf of Steven Hirsch <snhirsch at gmail.com>
Sent: Sunday, May 24, 2015 10:17 PM
To: CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts
Subject: Re: [Coco] DriveWire frustrations

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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