| ??? 02/15/05 00:49 Read: times |
#87463 - Linux version Responding to: ???'s previous message |
What I did not realize, however, is that there is a significant user base for Windows 98/ME/NT4 remaining. According to Microsoft, even security fixes for Windows NT 4.0 are no longer available. True. But many people don't trust Microsoft's "security fixes" anyway. Best policy is to have your Windows machine behind a firewall and don't open unrequested file attachments. That's what I have my wife doing and she's never had a problem. My wife is also a good example of what I'm talking about. She's using a 550 MHz Pentium II laptop that came with Windows 98. I wouldn't even think of trying to load WinXP on it--and I certainly wouldn't pay to upgrade it when she's working fine. If I'm going to install a new operating system on her laptop, it's going to be Linux! :) Curiously, what do you use when emulating Windows applications? And if you happen to test 89C4x0ldr-lite on it, I would be very interested in hearing how it goes. I use Win4Lin. Works great and pretty much lets me run any typical Windows program. In the past I've run Adobe, MS Office, Paint Shop Pro, Quicken, QuickBooks, etc. At this point I don't use it for anything except Paint Shop Pro, Quicken and Quickbooks. I've switched to OpenOffice and everything else I do in Linux without falling back to Windows applications. When I get some time I'll try to give your application a try and let you know what happens. Usually the only thing that doesn't work with Win4Lin is video games that use DivX and programs that use non-HID USB connections. It would not be particularly difficult to make a Linux port of 89C4x0ldr-lite. Obviously, a new Linux version of the serial port class would be needed. Additionally the various message-writing functions would need to be rewritten to use curses rather than the Win32 console API. I haven't used the Win32 API in a long time, but Linux development for command-line programs is very simple. Prints go to the console, scanfs come from the console, and opening the /dev/ttyS0 device isn't very difficult. However, also due to the same large project, I do not currently have time to maintain a native Linux port of 89C4x0ldr-lite. Is anyone interested in actually making/maintaining a port? Understandable. I also am short of time right now or I'd offer to do so. If there still isn't a Linux version when my time becomes a bit less busy I'll drop you an email and maybe we can do that. Regards, Craig Steiner |
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