Now the major free OS distributions have to make the awful choice of what becomes the default. Do they choose the completed and fully compatible Motif and imperil the nearly complete Lesstif project, or do they stick with Lesstif and force their users to help work out the remaining bugs? I hope they stick with Lesstif.
Lots of Linux users think this about nedit, because Debian and Red Hat put up versions of it paired with early releases of Lesstif. NEdit is only really stable with Lesstif.89.4 and later. There were statically linked (Motif) versions available, but the Linux distributions wouldn't touch them. As a result, lots of people saw those versions and think nedit is crappy and unstable, when it's actually one of the most reliable applications around. NEdit is coming up on a major new release, which is now out in alpha test. As of 5.1, nedit will be under the GPL license, and fully validated with Lesstif. The combination of NEdit with Lesstif is now as rock-solid as the original Motif version was, and 100% GPL.
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Now the major free OS distributions have to make the awful choice of what becomes the default. Do they choose the completed and fully compatible Motif and imperil the nearly complete Lesstif project, or do they stick with Lesstif and force their users to help work out the remaining bugs? I hope they stick with Lesstif.
Lots of Linux users think this about nedit, because Debian and Red Hat put up versions of it paired with early releases of Lesstif. NEdit is only really stable with Lesstif .89.4 and later. There were statically linked (Motif) versions available, but the Linux distributions wouldn't touch them. As a result, lots of people saw those versions and think nedit is crappy and unstable, when it's actually one of the most reliable applications around. NEdit is coming up on a major new release, which is now out in alpha test. As of 5.1, nedit will be under the GPL license, and fully validated with Lesstif. The combination of NEdit with Lesstif is now as rock-solid as the original Motif version was, and 100% GPL.