Kerika on Linux!

Finally! We are offering a Kerika packaging for Linux users. After wrestling with InstallJammer for many hours yesterday, I finally gave up and went with InstallBuilder. Try as I might, I just couldn't get InstallJammer to display our license agreement properly, and finally gave up late last night.

I tested it (briefly) on two machines:

• An ancient Hewlett-Packard desktop that is dual-partitioned to run Windows XP and CentOS-4.
• A Mac Book Pro running Ubuntu as a virtual operating system (using Parallels).

The Ubuntu testing went a lot easier: for some reason Kerika had trouble recognizing the double-clicks on CentOS. I played around with the mouse settings but I never got it working quite right. In general, Ubuntu was a friendlier Linux experience.

One other deficiency we found: for some reason dragging and dropping documents from the desktop (or other file folder) onto Idea Pages doesn't seem to work on Linux, so you need to use the Project Tools or the File menu to add documents. (But dragging and dropping Web Links (URLs) does work.)

In general we have a very limited ability to support the Linux version, which comes with a big "caveat emptor"...