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Atom: free and open source for everyone to download
- mrbonner 12y agoCorrection: "Atom: free and open source for everyone (with a Mac computer) to download"
- adamcw 12y agoThere are build instructions for Linux and I think even Windows as well. I think Ubuntu is currently the main target on the linux side. Edit: Just double checked and there are Windows build instructions at https://github.com/atom/atom https://github.com/atom/atom. Although I haven't actually tried to follow them, so I'm not sure if they end in a usable build.
- 16bytes 12y agoJust looking at the issue tracker seems to indicate there are some problems with the windows build, but it does seems to indicate they are well on their way.
- gankgu 12y agowelcome.md says "1. Atom is free during the beta period. " you can change title to "free beta"
- freshyill 12y agoThen the welcome.md is out of date. It's been open sourced.
- espadrine 12y agoSomething can be open-source and paid for. It is uncommon, because people can build it on their own, but Sublime Text is an obvious counter-argument: people are ready to pay for development, even when they could use it without paying.
- ben336 12y agoST isn't open sourced though, it just has a free trial that the developer has never chosen to put a limit on.
- sciurus 12y agoSee https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7704859 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7704859
- carlosvergara 12y agoCouldn't get it running on my ubuntu 14.04. npm keeps complaining about something or another, either with nodejs not being called node, or with gyp; at this point I kind of just stopped trying.