[scribus] Multiple instances of Scribus

William F. Maddock billsey at earthlink.net
Tue Apr 29 02:44:04 CEST 2008


On Mon, 2008-04-28 at 11:01 -0400, Gregory Pittman wrote:
> Well, yes this is a Linux feature. Prior to Linux, the standard desktop 
> computer behavior was to not allow one to start up a program already 
> running. If Windows or Macs or whatever behave this way now, it's an 
> adoption of this Linux behavior, not something they invented.

Actually, Amiga was doing this before Linux ever showed up on the scene,
and Amiga got it from Unix. Mac probably got it from Unix as well. Can't
say about Windows.
                                    
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