alexkay

FreeBSD doesn't have Perl in the base system (but of course has it in the ports). Same with Bash though, but the Bourne shell is of course in the base.

[1] http://alexandral.livejournal.com/347217.html

If you are going to use GTK+, take a look at Vala [1]. It's a C#-like language which is compiled into C. Much saner than coding in C. You can easily port your app to Windows/OSX, but, as others noted, non-native UI will be far from perfect.

I'm using this approach in an open-source project of mine [2], feel free to borrow the ideas.

[1] http://live.gnome.org/Vala

[2] http://www.spek-project.org/

To be honest, Apple is much much worse in this sense. I can buy Windows X and install it in a VM of my choice. Try this with OS X. And the only reason I need it is to port my app to their platform, potentially enhancing their ecosystem.

On a different note, thanks for offering the ebook version at the same time as the dead tree version. Well worth the 3 bucks.

[1] http://hackermonthly.com/issue-3.html

[2] http://hackermonthly.com/issue-4.html

It's quite simple really: US - miles, the rest of the world - kilometres

By offering commercial support and custom instalations, see for example http://blog.gitorious.org/2009/05/11/welcome-qt/

If something can be copied, it will be, that's the law of nature. Your business plan should take this into account.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pirate_Party_Australia

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