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Take A Core Dump: What to do when your app crashes on Linux

Paul Lefebvre on October 31, 2017

Cross-posted from the Xojo Blog With many things in life, more choices means more freedom of expression. We can pick and choose what we like perso...
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Have you found a general need/interest in being Linux friendly increase with in your own company or has it always been a focus?

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Paul Lefebvre

We've been supporting Linux in our cross-platform development tool (Xojo) since 2005. Linux is not nearly as commonly used as Windows/macOS but we think it's important for people to have that choice. I mostly recommend Mint for desktop use. It installs fast, comes with the things people want already built-in and is easy enough to figure out without much guidance.

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Considering that Unix is the base for all operating system, has a big influence on Andriod and servers around the world. Seeming fitting that you provide platforms for the 2% of Linux users world wide. Wish more gaming companies thought like that. :)

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Eric Curtin

cgdb is a curses interface on top of gdb which is very useful. Has vim-like keybindings and syntax highlighting