platforms

River5 on Windows

As you know, I’m a big fan of Dave Winer and his River of News aggregators. His recent River5 is particularly nice.

(Update: 17 Mar 2018. Although these notes discuss setting up River5 on a virtual server, I have used these instructions to set it up on a Raspberry Pi 3 Model B sitting on my desk. It has been running for months without issue. In fact, it’s more reliable than my CloudAtCost rented server ever was.)

I’ve already posted about installing on a CloudAtCost server running Ubuntu. But it seems some folks are running into difficulty installing on Windows. It’s easy and works like a dream. Here’s how.

What's Cross-Platform Now?

It used to be that “cross-platform” meant making a program that could be run on Windows, Macs, and Linux PCs. To create a program that worked on all three platforms, you could write it in Java, or maybe Python or C depending on what the program needed to do. That’s not really the case anymore. First there were smart-phones. In that case you could still fall back on Java ME for some phones, but not all.