I remembered coming to this site when I was using Windows But it crashed somehow And I had to install Ubuntu Linux on it.I came here hoping Linux was now supported But still it wasn't.Like Firefox is available for Linux,So there must be a way to make portable versions of apps.
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Hello!
Most Apps have compatibility information listed underneath. You will see that some have the ability to run on Linux systems through the use of Wine.
Most app are tested using Ubuntu's wine for the compatibility.
And welcome to PortableApps.Com
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Too many bridges you can burn
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You forgot https://portableapps.com/apps/compatibility
But yeah I really wonder where the link to the Application Compatibility page is...
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Scroll all the way down and that kind of info is shown at the bottom.
Too many lonely hearts in the real world
Too many bridges you can burn
Too many tables you can't turn
Don't wanna live my life in the real world
I know about WINE Already.Its what I use now.But there is so much bad integration with things.If only John dual booted between Linux And Windows...
I'm using Linux (Fedora Core 9) with PortableApps.com and it's working well for ThunderBird, Kompozer, DirStat, etc. I dual boot a notebook with Vista and Fedora with my PortableApps on a USB hard drive and another with a USB stick. Both are working very well. I haven't noticed any speed difference which is impressive.
Fantastic work!!!
there is no booting with portableapps. They just run under windows. Dual boot would something else, with the operating system etc.
But I understand what you mean. You mean when a stick is inserted into a linux running system then there should be set of apps made for linux on it. But when I see that there is a special version needed for every almost every distro, so it might be quite difficult to keep that thing portable. Like firefox prepared to run simply on SUSE might probably not work at all on some Debian etc. This is also the reason, why so many progs for Linux come as sources and one can 'make ' them on his own system running, then it might all come out correct.
On windows, since there is only one such basic system, the structure where what is placed and what it does is more defined and one can assume that progs will find some ways to run on it.
Otto Sykora
Basel, Switzerland