Re: Lost Linux Software

From	Eli the Bearded <*@eli.users.panix.com>
Newsgroups	comp.os.linux.misc
Subject	Re: Lost Linux Software
Date	2022-12-30 02:46 +0000
Organization	Some absurd concept
Message-ID	<eli$2212292146@qaz.wtf> (permalink)
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In comp.os.linux.misc, Tavis Ormandy  <taviso@gmail.com> wrote:
> In 1999 Adobe made a beta native version of FrameMaker 5.5.6 for Linux,
> it was freely available from their ftp site.
> 
> It never made it out of beta -- there are rumours the project was
> killed by Adobe management as part of a deal with Microsoft (this was
> the halloween documents era), but who knows.
> 
> Here is the original press release:
> 
> https://web.archive.org/web/20000301210923/http://www.adobe.com/aboutadobe/pressroom/pressreleases/199912/19991215linux.html
> 
> And it would have been downloaded from this page:
> 
> https://web.archive.org/web/20000303113845/http://www.adobe.com/products/framemaker/fmlinux.html
> 
> I think this software is lost - I can't find a copy of it
> anywhere. I don't suppose anyone on this group has a copy in an old
> backup or something?
> 
> It would have been called "fmlinux2.tar.gz"

If I had known of that at the time, I would have downloaded it and tried
it. But I have no recollection of ever using Framemaker on Linux. Just a
couple of years before then I used Framemaker, probably still the Frame
Technologies one rather than a version post Adobe acquisition, on
Solaris. Frame was the tool for book sized documents on Unix.

Scribus works, but last time I tried to create a book in it, it just
crawled, and on a machine with a lot more memory than that pizza box
Sun I used in the 1990s.

Elijah
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Adobe used to be such a promising company

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  Re: Lost Linux Software Eli the Bearded <*@eli.users.panix.com> - 2022-12-30 02:46 +0000
    Re: Lost Linux Software The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2022-12-30 14:24 +0000
      Re: Lost Linux Software Eli the Bearded <*@eli.users.panix.com> - 2022-12-30 21:06 +0000
        Re: Lost Linux Software The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2022-12-30 22:00 +0000
      Re: Lost Linux Software "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2022-12-31 14:24 +0100
        Re: Lost Linux Software Eli the Bearded <*@eli.users.panix.com> - 2022-12-31 19:23 +0000
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