For those of us who prefer to use Linix (Ubuntu in my case), it would be nice for someone in your dev department to come up with a DM app that will work in Linux. From what I have searched/read, there are a real number of potential consumers that you may be losing because of the lack of Linux support.
Linux is open source, the idea is community support. Why not have a version for us, even if it's somewhat limited to start with? Need beta testers?
I have to agree with you on that one. Most of the computers in the house use Ubuntu 10.04 and one uses 8.04.4 due to it being a bit incompatible with 10.04 (bugs being worked out in the future) and windows xp on the 11 year old desktop for syncing with my bold 9700. If there was a Linux version, I wouldn't need windows.
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I don't really like using a VM to run Desktop Manager. I just dual-booted my machine. Yes it's a pain to have to reboot every time I want to swap back and forth between the two OS's, but I like DM and I like Ubuntu...
I doubt we will see linux support for the desktop manager. I am a nix sys admin and run some form of it on my personal systems as well. One of the main issues with linux is the fragmentation in the number of variants - which would RIM choose to support? Likely the answer would be RedHat which undoubtedly only satisfy a portion of the linux world. Given todays hardware running a Win based vm is rather trivial - and in my case at least seems to fill in the gap for all of the Windows based software I still need to run to.
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I doubt we will see linux support for the desktop manager. I am a nix sys admin and run some form of it on my personal systems as well. One of the main issues with linux is the fragmentation in the number of variants - which would RIM choose to support? Likely the answer would be RedHat which undoubtedly only satisfy a portion of the linux world. Given todays hardware running a Win based vm is rather trivial - and in my case at least seems to fill in the gap for all of the Windows based software I still need to run to.
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It wouldn't be too difficult for RIM to work on RedHat and Debian variants...since those two distributions represent the overwhelming majority of Linux desktops!
