I'm primarily a Mac user, but I have an old Toshiba notebook (475 MHz, 192 MB, 6 GB, 800x600 pixels) with Windows 98 SE and the unofficial Service Pack installed.
Yesterday, I installed Ubuntu Linux in a dual boot. Ubuntu seems to be the best choice for people who want to use Linux, but are less computer savvy than the average Linux user seems to be. It has a good support, is 100% free and has a nice look and feel. It doesn't have the sophisticated design of Mac OS X, but it does the job and does it rather well on an eight years old computer.
However, Ubuntu has a Gnome desktop and Moho seems to want KDE as a desktop. Luckily, there is also a Kubuntu fork which uses KDE for its desktop. Someone on a Dutch Ubuntu forum gave me the advice to download the Kubuntu installation disk and apt-cd it, to install the KDE desktop.
I hope all goes well and Moho will launch in a Linux box tomorrow on my old laptop.
Anyway, it seems to me that having all three platforms available (Windows, Mac OS X and Linux KDE) is a good thing if you want to write scripts for Moho.
I just wanted to let you know what I have been doing all this time.
Of course, I'll report back once I successfully launched Moho and perhaps show you some screenshots.
Moho on (K)Ubuntu Linux
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Well, I tried Moho with the Gnome desktop and it didn't run. I have asked about the requirements on the Ubuntu forum, mentioned on the Linux Notes page, and Ubuntu should meet those requirements.
Perhaps I should modify the shell script called "moho", because in the Linux Notes it reads:
OTOH something could have gone wrong during the download process, so I redownload and try again.
Perhaps I should modify the shell script called "moho", because in the Linux Notes it reads:
I have no clue what those "small adjustments" should be.To install Moho on your Linux system, all you should need to do is to uncompress the package and place it wherever you like on your system. To launch Moho, run the script called 'moho' included in the download. If you run into problems, you may need to make small adjustments to that startup script.
OTOH something could have gone wrong during the download process, so I redownload and try again.
It really was quite simple. All I needed to install was a library called libstdc++5, by entering this in a terminal shell:
Here are some photographs I made of my old laptop running Moho:
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sudo apt-get install libstdc++5
Of course, by now I have found the screenshot utility of Ubuntu, reconfigured the screen size (1280 x 800) for the attached external monitor, and discovered that I can use my digital camera as a removable hard disk (just as with my Mac and in Win98), so exchanging files up to 60 MB is really easy. I think I'll buy an el cheapo usb memory stick for even easier file exchange without a local network.
So here's a much better screenshots of Moho running in Ubuntu:
Although the OS is localized to Dutch, you can see Moho has basically the same appearance as in other OSes.
So here's a much better screenshots of Moho running in Ubuntu:
Although the OS is localized to Dutch, you can see Moho has basically the same appearance as in other OSes.
I needed a few hours to figure out how to use fonts in Moho, because Moho doesn't support Linux' font system. In Ubuntu the fonts are located in several subdirectories of /usr/share/fonts/, while Moho needs a single directory.
I made a subdirectory in my home directory with the hidden name .font and copied the fonts I needed from the system location fonts:/// (using Nautilus as a file browser). The advantage is that you can put non-GNU fonts in there (e.g. Windows fonts). The disadvantage is that you need to have to duplicates of the same font. Perhaps this could be solved by using symlinks instead of the actual files in the .fonts directory.
So no Moho animation yet from the Linux pc, but perhaps tomorrow.
I made a subdirectory in my home directory with the hidden name .font and copied the fonts I needed from the system location fonts:/// (using Nautilus as a file browser). The advantage is that you can put non-GNU fonts in there (e.g. Windows fonts). The disadvantage is that you need to have to duplicates of the same font. Perhaps this could be solved by using symlinks instead of the actual files in the .fonts directory.
So no Moho animation yet from the Linux pc, but perhaps tomorrow.
