On installing Joost under Linux
When responding to someones post, especially when it pertains to anything Internet, Linux or other geeky subjects, you… OK – deep breath.
A week or so ago I jokingly posted a rant about installing Joost on Linux. So far only Brent & a spammer have responded. The comment from the spammer dealt with increasing the size of my & * ( < - I'm not too concerned about that so that comment was deleted. Brent on the other hand had this to say.
http://www.macewan.org/2007/03/05/how-to-install-joost-on-linux/
In the defense of Joost, as a beta user of it, and as a Linux user, I say this. This is still an invitation only beta product. They have said that they plan to make a Linux version. These people have made a native Skype client, so I’d say that it is safe to assume that they will also do the same for Joost.
This program is not in it’s infancy. It’s not even born yet. I’d give it some time dude. Plus one must face the fact that the most downloads of Joost will most likely be for Windows, followed by OSX. Therefore, this demand must be satisfied first.
Secondly, if it is to be installed with wine is that terrible, as long as it works? I find Google’s Picasa to be a nice bit of software, despite the fact that it requires wine. It still works just as well as in Windows.
I’m willing to bet that in time, we will see a native Linux Joost client, that is if this Joost hype truly takes off. So far, it isn’t that great yet, imho. It is not going to replace cable tv anytime soon.
Just my two cents, but I hope this gives a bit of reason to the doubt.
Thanks.
Wow, that was so thoughtful Brent. Thank you so much for taking the time to reply with such a well written reply to my obviously ill informed ignorant rant. At times I need that.
There are however a couple of things that I just did not comprehend with you reply. You mentioned Joost still being in beta. Maybe I’m getting old, just turn 39 
, but I still call it The Venice Project. That was the project name back when I got my invite. Silly me and my old ways. Doesn’t matter. Being so full of knowledge I decided that maybe I could search the forums to hopes of grabbing more of your know-how, but I couldn’t find you.
You see my problem. Things are just difficult for me to grasp at times. As a Linux user you probably know that we’ve been asking about our flavor of the Venice Project for quite awhile. Checking today I see that there are 279 postings after searching* the topic.
On the subject of using WINE to run Google software – I don’t really mind that much. Back in 2005 when I wrote of how to install Google Earth on Linux good ole WINE was required. Even last summer when I wrote an update WINE was required. And if you do a search for Google Earth Linux you’ll see them still mention WINE. Go ahead and look. 
As far as Picasa the image software goes, I prefer standard Linux software on that. Maybe trying F-Spot from time to time, but it’s written in C# on the Mono platform and yes, I know, a *nix version of the .N37 development platform seems kinda icky keep in mind it is an ISO standard which gives it a couple of tiny thumbs up. At least with me it does.
As far as native Joost goes… with the OS-X version running behind the Windows version just as it was in the Skype situation I have little faith in a native Lin* version any time soon. But don’t loose hope – we’ve been installing with WINE from time to time so there is a light at the end of the tunnel. That is if you want to watch tv on your computer. Me? I have a TV card that works no problem when I care to kill my brain cells.
*note: you’ll need to join the forum to actually join the search which in itself is a rather interesting subject. At first we didn’t have a search function. We asked and asked for a search. Funny thing is that shortly after I posted a link to information on adding the search function to this forum software – they found the same thing and added it.
my post of how to add search:
Re: Search function in this forum
http://api.pocoo.org/pocoo.pkg.core.search-module.html
- Posts: XXXXXXXXXX
- Registered: XXXXXXXXX
- Posted on: Sun, 11 Feb 2007 15:12
a posting that search has been added:
Re: Search Function for the Forum
Search the Forum is now in the header of the forum – in the image
- Posts: XXXXXXX
- Registered: XXXXXXXX
- Posted on: Wed, 21 Feb 2007 18:19
sorta cool timing.
Again, thank you for your reply.
cheers,
macewan
johnny
on April 16th, 2007
I mean, okay, they _might_ have a linux client yet to come, but I can’t see any evidence of this, the beta version doesn’t even have a linux build (how’s this, aren’t IT professionals the ones that are supposed to be using linux, aren’t they the ones that could do the most productive bug-hunting?).
Well, I’m not sure the skype way of dealing with opensource is the way to go, their linux client is at best say buggy enough, and it’s several versions off the windoze client. Let’s hope joost will not be like this, as p2p internet television is a great idea. I think also, that if they don’t pay attention, they could be overthrown by a more open-approached project that let’s anyone with a fast enough internet connection share content in a transparent way.
kingofnima
on May 24th, 2007
well the thing is that it doesn’t work with wine so it doesn’t help anyway