Will you make a Linux / BSD / BeOS / other non-Windows version of your programs?

In short: We have plans for Mac versions of our Photoshop plugins, and our PHP scripts already work on Linux & BSD. We have no plans for other non-Windows operating systems.

Windows 95 / 98 / 98SE / ME / 2000 / XP / Vista

namesuppressed supports all of these platforms directly. We test our software directly on Windows 95a, 98SE, 2000, XP Professional and Vista RC1. Although we don't do testing on Windows ME, it should also run all namesuppressed software without problems.

Mac OS X

Update: Mac support is on its way! For more details, please see our page about Mac versions. If you would like to be a beta tester for our Mac plugins, please fill out our Beta Tester Signup form. Thanks!!

Macintosh Classic (OS 6.x - 9.x)

Development for Macintosh Classic has now ceased and is no longer supported. Our last Macintosh Classic program was the free version of namesuppressed Autointerlace for MacOS 7.x machines.

BeOS / OpenBeOS

We used to run BeOS here, and found it fast and very slick. But the userbase is so small, and the OS is now so out-of-date, it wouldn't be commercially viable to support it. We're no longer developing for BeOS.

yellowTAB Zeta

Zeta is the commercial successor to BeOS. We were involved in beta testing Zeta and the Xentronix Refraction photo editor. Unfortunately, the time for BeOS/Zeta has passed - if you want an alternative OS, you're better off choosing Linux, FreeBSD or switching to Macintosh. We also had difficulty obtaining the Refraction SDK, so we've ceased plans to develop for Zeta.

Palm OS

namesuppressed considered developing for Palm OS and is an advocate of the Palm platform. However, PalmSource did not provide namesuppressed with access to the necessary development ROMs, making development awkward. We're not sure why that happened - maybe they just lost our application. There are currently no Palm development plans.

Linux

There are no plans for further Linux development. The Linux community has become so enamoured with the GPL licence, it is unclear how any commercial development on the platform is possible. Richard Stallman (author of the GPL licence) even debates the legality of any proprietary program running on Linux.

The GPL is far more restrictive than many realize. If you want to develop plugins for The GIMP, they must be released under the GPL. namesuppressed has yet to find a way that the GPL business model can be profitable for desktop developers. Most of the desktop Linux distributions didn't work on our computers anyway - Knoppix was the only one that worked.

Although this website runs on Linux (and WebScriber does too), namesuppressed has no plans for native Linux development.

FreeBSD / NetBSD / OpenBSD

namesuppressed supports the BSD philosophy and finds it far preferable to the GPL licence (as used by Linux). We've had problems installing BSD distributions on our hardware though.

namesuppressed WebScriber should work on BSD, and if you need assistance we'll try to help you as much as possible. However there won't be any native development for FreeBSD.

Solaris

namesuppressed WebScriber is known to work on Solaris. We can try to help you run our PHP script software on Solaris, although we don't have a copy of Solaris ourselves. We do not plan to support Solaris directly.

QNX

We have no plans to develop for or support QNX.

OS/2

We have a copy of OS/2 Warp, but we've never installed it. You might be able to get WebScriber to run on OS/2 using the latest PHP builds. We do not provide support for OS/2 though, and will not be developing software for it. However, I'm happy to work with anyone wanting to do a Kenny Translator port to OS/2.

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