[scribus] Windows 7

[Richard]

Since it was Beta


Richard escribió:
> Hello John.
>
> I´m using Seven on "all" my computers, from a 3000+ Athlon(1 
> core)/1GB, passing thru my laptop Athlon TK57(2 cores)/4GB up to the 
> Phenom 8650(3 cores)/4GB desktop.
> Even an old 1300MHz Tualatin Celeron with 512MB.
>
> IT WORKS!
> ¿fine, good, bad?.... it works, flawlessly.
>
> 2 computers with 64bits version and 2 with 32 bits version.
> The Celeron goes fine, not too fast, but enough for an office usage 
> and internet.
>
> I`m using on my both main computers the following software:
>
> /Mozilla Thunderbird, Mozilla Firefox, Trillian 3, Skype, WinSCP, 
> Putty, WinMTR
> OpenOffice 3.1
> Scribus (1.3.3.13), Inkscape, Gimp, Blender, Google Sketchup
> Aimp, Media Player Classic, VirtualDub (and Mod), ffdshow(k-lite+etc), 
> Avisynth, Jahshaka
> 7zip, Infrarecorder/
> VirtualBox
> qemu (emulating OLPC -XO-)
>
> On my laptop is also installed: xHarbour, Harbour, Borland C++ 5.5, 
> OpenWatcom, PellesC, Firebird 2.1 and FlameRobin, plus some special 
> text editors.
>
> And the Athlon 3000 also has: Audition and Audacity.
>
> Again: Flawlessly
> Everytime i find a 64bits version of any program, i give it a try, 
> usually they work fine, unless on beta or alike.
> Every 32bits program has worked as always did.
>
> Dont fall into scare, if you seek for issues, surely you`ll find some, 
> i'm always trying to find solutions, and i had never found any issue.
> Anyway, there has been nothing that didn't work, except for some very 
> very old programs, mostly DOS, but they work on virtalbox+freedos, 
> bochs, qemu or any other emulator/VM.
> There is also some really old hardware that does not work, but even an 
> old SoundBlaster live! value is working (kxdriver).
>
> Have a nice time reinstalling.
>
>
> PS: BTW, almost everything is also working fine on Linux (x64).....
>
>
> John Beardmore escribió:
>> My laptop has trashed its XP boot disk.
>>
>> As I'm rebuilding from scratch, I though I might as well put a more 
>> up to date OS on it.
>>
>> This machine has to be an MS OS, but as the reviews of windows 7 
>> suggest that they haven't made a complete vista of it, I thought I 
>> might give that a go. So...
>>
>> Has anybody used Scribus 1.3.6 under windows 7 ?  (And for that 
>> matter Gimp and possibly Inkscape ?)
>>
>> Further, is it worth considering the 64 bit version of windows 7 ?  
>> Does that run the 32 bit scribus builds OK ?
>>
>> And in the long run, is it expected that there will be 64 bit 
>> compiles of Scribus for windows 7 ?
>>
>>
>> Cheers, J/.
>
>
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