What are Songbird's system requirements?

Sorry :/, We do our best to keep Songbird a cross-platform solution, but that means that our resources must be carefully managed. It's difficult for us to make a case for backward compatibility back to Win2k. ( Delete or Edit for 15 minutes )

Nitpicker ;-)
ALL *nix derivates ARE publicly called Linux, by all but the geekiest Tech-savvy people... It has become like saying Jeep for all Offroad vehicles, or here in Germany "Tempo" (which too, is just a brand) for Handkerchiefs or like many people refer to "google something", when they want to say online search. I think, you got to live with that. It's too late to change, if you ask me... ( Delete or Edit for 15 minutes )

The moment they start testing, developing, and making builds for BSD, AIX, IRIX, HP-UX, Solaris, etc, they'll start saying UNIX instead. As is, they develop for Linux, and if it happens to work anywhere else, that's a plus. ( Delete or Edit for 15 minutes )

G'day,

Part of the problem is that later versions of fedora add SELinux, which stops Songbird working. The only solution is to apparently recompile on Fedora 11/10 which fixes the problem (but you probably break compatibility with older distro's). Also, it requires the automated building tools to be updated.

Technically though. (*Knock knock*) Its the world calling, they want a standard packaging format in linux (which has been agreed to by all major distro's), and a bigger standard set of libs. It might also be nice if they provided some backwards compatibility once in a while. In Windows 7, I can STILL play the game outpost, and that was designed for Windows 95. In Linux though, any backwards compatibility with applications is a coincidence. And even worse, distributions don't even provide an easy way for developers to know how the API are changing (they don't even have a centralised development centre).

So whilst I do agree better linux support would be nice, Linux distro's need to be less stubborn and start standardising a bit! Because at the moment, Linux takes significantly longer then Windows or OSX to test (because you need to test different versions of the distro's, and different distro's too) and coupled with the small audience unfortunately lets linux down a bit.

But thats just 100% my opinion, I'm community and am not hired by Songbird. But I actually think its a good idea for developers to boycott Linux until at the very least, the top few distro's select a common package format. All these various packaging formats waste everyone time. Combined, I'm betting the extra time spent jerking around with everyone repackaging everything (not even with any changes normally) could probably have been enough to rewrite Xorg (total speculation though, but if you see how many people are repackaging programs, you have to really wonder how much time gets wasted by the different distributions and developers).

We third party developers don't stand up though, nothing will ever be done, and time will just keep getting wasted. ( Delete or Edit for 15 minutes )

I was actually suggesting that Daniel Raffel fix the link in his post to this question/thread. You have posted the correct link, which is almost as good. ( Delete or Edit for 15 minutes )