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Songbird Drops Linux Support

Posted by Soulskill on from the business-realities dept.

An anonymous reader writes "The Songbird developers have announced that they will no longer support Songbird in Linux. This is really a shocking announcement, as Songbird has its roots in open source. Songbird will, however, continue to be available for Windows and Mac." In their blog post on the subject, the developers said, "We remain loyal to Linux and the ideology it represents, so we will maintain a version of the software for use by our Songbird engineers who develop on the Linux platform. We’ll make that version available to the community. We will keep Linux build bots and host the Linux builds on the developer wiki. That said, those builds will not be tested and may not pick up new features developed by Songbird’s team."

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  1. Re:Help in TFA? by WinterSolstice · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    It actually depends on the plugins. I have SongBird running off a Portable Apps thumbdrive right now, and it's using 80MB. Of 16 GB of RAM.

    So, what's the big deal even if it used 140? What is this, 1999?

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  2. Talk about a two-faced lie. by Stumbles · · Score: 0, Flamebait
    ""We remain loyal to Linux and the ideology it represents... blah, blah.""

    How can they with a straight face make such a claim when they intend to let the Linux version to slowly die of bit rot? Their platitudes towards Linux and the community is nothing short of a backhanded slap in the face.

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