Due to the lack of reliability and stability the Windows operating system provides, not to mention the vulnerabilities to malware. I am changing my home network over to Linux, Ubuntu to be specific,

Is CoffeeCup HTML Efitor able to run in a Linux environment?

I believe you can set up a Linux Operating system on a disk PC User had some mention of it a year or two ago it could run Windows programs. Try. I am still running XP as it is stable and in over 10 years owning a paying site I think I had two attacks and that was to my contact form. Hosts have the ultimate in virus protection and programs like Avast and AVG protect home systems. In over 20 years I have been online I have had one virus and I had to copy that from a friend to see it. "The bouncing ball virus" that was 15 years ago. Personally I would not worry about it. Just make a clean drive image backup once per week.

If you do not browse the adult sites viruses would be rare. Keep the kids from running games they get from mates. Get a cheap computer for them. Let us all know if it does run on Ubuntu. I think I can run it on a disk, It is ideal if your operating system fails.

Who says Ubuntu is stable. without the backup Windows has. It is an open source operating system

You have two approaches to running CoffeeCup in your Linux environment:

WINE - Wine is a windows DLL library for running apps "natively" on Linux. It is a robust project and has many successes, but doesn't guarantee that it will run everything.

VirtualBox - VirtualBox is a free virtual machine system for Linux, done by the Oracle folks. With it, you can install Windows in a virtual machine environment and run CoffeeCup through it. Granted this will technically "expose" your computer to potential Windows viruses, but since the virtual machine is isolated, it won't affect your main computer.

Hope this helps!

Don't go to the DARK SIDE! Choose OS X over Linux and then you can stick with us!

Yes, I would agree, that if you are going to switch to anything, it should be a Mac. I personally only like Windows. But if I were forced to change it would be to a Mac, only after a few classes on how to use one! LOL

I though MacApple was the Dark Side

I love my little Linux netbook But I've never tried WINE. Except for CC, it has everything I need/want on it. Although it would be nice to have Power Post on it.
A Power Post app for all mobile devices would be cool!

Welcome to the Dark Side, Mark (buh-wah-ha-ha)!

I found that the CC Editor became stable on Ubuntu (as of 11.10) with WINE once Coffee Cup removed the built-in visual editor. However, it still does not work properly. For instance, the editor and/or the operating environment makes a mess of the function keys (to control the split-screen preview, for example), and once they're messed up, only quitting & restarting the editor will put things right again.

It's awfully close to working, though. I'll bet the WINE experts at Codeweavers could put their heads together with Coffee Cup and make it happen.

That would be great for you, me and a few others, Mark, but how would Coffee Cup make money on that? Everybody knows that Mac users are willing to pay even more than Windows users for their design tools, a noblesse oblige / artsiness among uber-cool kids with money to burn. Silly, IMHO, but there it is, and Coffee Cup is wise to go after it.

Maybe the right approach is to build your own Hackintosh (Google it.) and run the Coffee Cup editor on OS X. That very nearly would be a Linux solution. It would be worth it just to have the file path delimiter tilted in the Web-preferred direction!

Wow, referring to moving to Linux as going to the Dark Side?
I have been using Linux since about 1997, and would choose it over Microsoft or Mac.

I work for a company that does web hosting and web design, and I convinced the owner to try and then purchase coffee cup software, but after seeing this comment by the VP of Software Development I am feeling pretty dissed.

I used the linux version of the HTML editor years ago, before they dropped it and I loved it. Had a copy right up until it would no longer run without modifications. I would have gladly bought Coffee Cup products for Linux but now I think I will switch back over to the Linux native editors but I will forever keep recommending coffee cup.

Just a thought question, but with a CC version for Mac OSX, and given the Mac OSX has Unix underneath, would it be terribly hard to create a version of the CC editor for Linux?

I've had enough frustrations with Windows and M$ products lately, that when I can next afford a computer, it will likely be a Mac. That'll mean becoming familiar with Unix again, and the "new" Mac since I used to be a regular Mac user.

Other food for thought: It's clear Apple is moving towards merging the Mac and iOS as they go. Does this imply we'll see Mac software vendors' apps appearing for iOS? Seems likely at some point. -- Though I'd want iOS apps to be more capable / full featured than at present.

The Dark Side? I hear they have chocolate. Or was it the Dork Side? ;D

I'm not too enamored with Windows, but in ten or twenty years, surely everything will have changed dramatically anyway. Where is that Banana 9000 yet? More importantly, where is that next geeky guy or girl or two who will outdo everybody with some great new computer HW/SW ideas?

Dear Coffee Cup,

Still lusting & leering for Linux.

Regards,
Halfnium, from the Dark Side