3 Installation

Installing OSSIE on Fedora Core 7 via the supplied build script is the recommend method of installing and running OSSIE on your native Linux system. Running Linux in a virtual VMware image as described in the Quick Start Guide (Section 1) is also officially supported. Although we do not yet provide and support installation packages for more Linux distributions, compiling OSSIE from source on them should be possible. Compiling from source in general has some advantages over using the VMware image, such as saving disk space and download time and not needing the resources necessary to run two operating systems concurrently.