Most all of the apps in porta apps are cross platformed, will there ever be a linux version?
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John will do Mac and Linux versions.
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As all of ya should know Micro$oft is the Evil Empire, and Windows (a.k.a. Winblows or Windoze) is their greatest general, so please make a difference and install Linux or FreeBSD on yer Windows comp.
If they become more prominent. I see Mac OSX losing ground and Linux gaining ground in the future.
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Linux apps are already on development. The problem is that they don't know a lot about Linux programming (but I can't complain because I don't know programming at all
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Most 99% of the time you are going to be able to your flash drive with portable apps on a Windows PC. They are few public/business/school Mac or Linux PC's. The portable apps would not help you if you have a Linux PC at home, Windows at work, and a Mac at school.
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The good thing about Portable Apps and Open Source!
Most of the software I use on my Windows AND Linux PC is open source. So you can use your open source Portable Apps to access files in Windows at work/school/library, and use the same Linux version of the software to open or edit the files at home on Linux. Not sure about MAC, they may be out of luck. I guess my point is... I LOVE PORTABLE APPS!
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My point was though. The portable versions you see here and mostly that support profile/data carrying are not cross platform.
I really don't know much about Linux to know if it has an evil thing like a registry.
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I don't need the same FFP (as an example) on Mac and Windows computers, just the same profile. I can build the profile twice, and use different versions of FFP depending on which computer I'm at. It requires a little extra maintenance, but it's better than being stuck without my browser completely.
wms32: there is no registry on Linux (except on Gnome desktop environment that uses a very basic version of this to change ONLY the Gnome settings, not used by another programs); it is all saved on folders on the Home folder (the same as you profile folder on windows, but also a my docs folder).
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And yehoni, the same profile can be used for both; the ideal is to use the custom paths used actually plus a "linuxversion" folder inside "app" folder that uses the same profile.
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Yes, but using the same profiles has become more difficult and almost impossible. For example I used to share mt firefox profile between many linux partitions and windows editing the profile.ini file to point to a shared profile. However this no longer works since FF V 1.6. What I am wishing for, is a purely linux version of these applications using the portable apps gui start menu. One could have the mac, windows, and linux versions on their stick and whatever one for what ever platform. Any way just a wish list as being a geek I love and use all platforms.
Thanks for the replies.
Are you sure? A few time ago I copied my FFP profile to a local profile in Linux and worked like a charm (backup problems, don't ask). It was the 2.0.0.6 version.
And a solution if this doesn't work is a sync program, that, after FFP for windows is closed, this would translate the modified profile for linux, and vice-versa. The only problem are the extensions that don't work for windows, or for linux, and these are automatically disabled if not supported.
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Another problem is the fragmented nature of the GNU/Linux and *BSD file structures. Installing a program will put some files in /usr/bin, some in /usr/share, some in /usr/local, some in /usr/local/share, some in /opt etc. etc. This means that the program will have to be built to be self-contained in a way where the program doesn't start looking for standard libraries in the main system libraries, as there is no guarantee that they will be of a compatible version.
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My main "desire" is to be able to run Linux at home and Windows at work, and continue to share settings for Firefox and Thunderbird (at least) between the two using my USB stick.
As such, a solution such as QEMU which would let me run a virtualized Linux under Windows would be fine by me. In fact, it would pretty much be ideal
That said, something else that would simplify such sharing if its easier to create would also be ok by me. I just know that I'd like to avoid going back to where I was before I started using PortableApps. It has made my life a LOT simpler.
FWIW,
Ewan