[NMLUG] Forté Agent 2.0 released - built upon wxWindows

[wjl at icecavern.net (Wesley J Landaker)]

On Sunday 08 February 2004 10:02 am, Steve Browne wrote:
> Fort? Inc. has announced the release of Agent 2.0
> http://www.forteinc.com/main/homepage.php
> which has been entirely rebuilt upon the wxWindows cross-platform
> framework
> http://www.wxwindows.org/
>
> I'm not familiar with wxWindows. Does this mean that Agent 2.0 will
> run on Linux WITHOUT XO or VMWare? Do I have to install wxWindows for
> X11 on my Linux?

wxWindows is a GUI toolkit, like GTK, Qt, FOX, Motif, etc. If their 
software is written using wxWindows, that means that at least the GUI 
part of their program is cross-platform.

However, this is only meaningful if:

  1) Everything else in their program is cross-platform as well.
  2) Somebody compiles it for Linux, meaning either:
  2a) ... they give you the source code, or
  2b) ... they decide they feel like compiling it for you.

Nothing on their site mentions support for any other platform besides 
Microsoft, however, and they explicitly say: "Agent supports Windows 
95, 98, ME, NT, 2000, & XP", so I wouldn't hold your breath.

That said, there are plenty of Free Software newsgroup readers for 
Linux. Looking at Fort?'s advertized "feature-list" on their web site, 
it doesn't seem like Agent is really all that amazing...

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Wesley J. Landaker <wjl@icecavern.net>
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