[CoLoCo] Linux - Oh how I missed you.

[Simon Engelbert]

Yeah I did some digging around and it does appear they still do provide
source code (
http://wiki.songbirdnest.com/Developer/Articles/Builds/Contributed_Builds#Linux)
but it is up to you to package it up and install it. Luckily some community
members are doing that for us (
http://sudokill.blogspot.com/2010/09/songbird-190a-en-ubuntu-1004-paquete.htmlwill
need to use google translate). I might check it out again, but I am
still bitter ;-)

-Simon


On Tue, Jan 18, 2011 at 11:01 AM, Aaron D. Gerber <gerberad at gmail.com>wrote:

> On Tue, Jan 18, 2011 at 10:19 AM, NerdyNick <nerdynick at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> And on the Songbird thing. They didn't drop Linux. They just no longer
>> send it through the Unit Tests & QA phase. However a good chunk of
>> there devs do use Linux to develop on. So you shouldn't have many if
>> not any problems.
>
>
> It's a little more than that:
>
> Apr 2, 2010 Songbird Blog [1]: "After careful consideration, we’ve come to
> the painful conclusion that we should discontinue support for the Linux
> version of Songbird"
>
> I think there are a couple community members that make sure that it at
> least runs on Linux, but in terms of new features, they aren't putting any
> development into the Linux version.
>
> 1: http://blog.songbirdnest.com/2010/04/02/songbird-singing-a-new-tune/
>
> Aaron-
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