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25/12/2025

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Just verified that the Ooloi development and application environment installs and runs on macOS, Windows, and Linux. All tests pass on all three platforms. This is exactly as unsurprising as it sounds when you're running on the JVM.

Expectation is not the same thing as verification. This check removes a class of future problems before they arise. There are no platform assumptions embedded in the codebase. If you can run a JVM, you can run Ooloi.
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Magnus Johansson
27/12/2025 11:40:48

What will the minimum hardware and software requirements be for running Ooloi on Linux?

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Peter Bengtson link
28/12/2025 11:00:56

Too early to say. Benchmarks indicate Ooloi should run well on very modest systems, but Linux graphics driver behaviour varies enough across distributions and hardware that I won’t know real requirements until later. And there are other factors involved, like virtual instrument libraries you might want to use, which might far outweigh Ooloi’s memory requirements.

Promises at this stage would break Ooloi’s research mindset and drag down Ooloi to that primitive commercial level thinking I reject absolutely and categorically.

Remember, Ooloi’s motto isn’t the ‘Go quickly and break things’ of Musk’s Silicon Valley. No. It’s ‘Go slowly and mend things’.

—Peter​​​

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Magnus Johansson
28/12/2025 11:27:11

I am not asking for promises, but I see it is too early to say anything more precise about it.

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Ooloi is a modern, open-source desktop music notation software designed to produce professional-quality engraved scores, with responsive performance even for the largest, most complex scores. The core functionality includes inputting music notation, formatting scores and their parts, and printing them. Additional features can be added as plugins, allowing for a modular and customizable user experience.

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