It seems its not just some folks on MX that are having issues over compatibility.
http://www.slyck.com/story1423.htmlThe crew over at LimeWire have been quiet since the music industry sued this staple of the file-sharing community in August of 2006. Since the demise of BearShare and many others, LimeWire remains one of the few viable commercial file-sharing entities remaining in the United States, with the exception of BitTorrent, Inc. Like BitTorrent, LimeWire is both free and open source.
LimeWire's stealth mode and self-imposed radio silence was broken today with the publication of a new blog post addressing compatibility issues with Vista. The last blog post was on November 11, 2006.
Vista beta testers discovered that LimeWire caused the "Aero interface to disable its 3D effects". The problem was tracked down to the Java Runtime Environment, which was initially resolved with Sun Microsystems updating their JRE. However, in a series of bad coincidences, Microsoft updated Vista to make the Operating System believe it was running on XP. This still caused problems with the Aero interface. After a few workarounds and counter-workarounds, Microsoft dropped their update and the original Sun Microsystem's update that initially worked was kept as the final resolution.
A relatively simple problem revolved around LimeWire's inability to communicate to Vista which operating system it was running on. Because of this lack of communication, LimeWire believed it was running on Windows 98. Considering the level of networking support progress that's made between Windows 98 and XP SP2, the performance of LimeWire suffered. Yet a quick recoding of LimeWire resolved this issue.
Two other issues confronted were the imminent array of bugs, some of which caused LimeWire to consume almost half of all system resources. Another serious issue arose when users would run McAfee Firewall and then start LimeWire. Inexplicably, the network connection would then vanish; "Not Good!" the LimeWire blog exclaimed.
I,m sure they will work around the main problems but with immature code thats already seen its fair share of problems they should brace themselves to expect more issues in the future.
