Ubuntu Desktop for the OS. VirtualBox as a virtual machine to install Win 7/XP. It works especially well if you have a chipset that supports hardware virtualization, like AMD. You can turn on hardware virtualization in the BIOS and then VirtualBox can call directly into the hardware for some of its operations, speeding things up. You'll want plenty of ram though as you are running 2 os's at once.
Development: CFEclipse. A very decent CF IDE that is getting better every day. If you use the Aptana plugin for Eclipse, you'll also get good FTP support, local file system browsing and good JS/CSS insight. Graphics: use Gimp. Gimp supports PSD files and will do layers and alpha channels and bending text to paths and rendering cute difference clouds and all that other crap. Browser: I'd suggest using Chrome. I've found it to be much faster than Firefox on Linux. Chrome has a pretty decent set of dev tools, similar to firebug. I still install Firefox and firebug though. I would also suggest keeping a Windows VM around to test with IE. All of the above software is free, btw, and it is cross platform. I use the same bundle of software on Win 7 that I use on Ubuntu. It just works. Cheers, Judah On Fri, Apr 23, 2010 at 6:56 AM, Matthew P. Smith <m...@smithwebdesign.net> wrote: > > So I've pretty much had it with windows. I was all excited with 7, and it > worked great for a couple of months, but now my systems has slowed way down > and I can't figure out what is going on. At this point it looks like I will > have to reinstall, and frankly, I don't really have the time for it. > > I'd like to make the jump to actually using linux, at least give it a shot. > > I've used the Unbuntu live cd to recover files from virus infected pcs but > that's about it. > > So I will be doing a reinstall of windows, but will create a second > partition and slap linux on it and give it a go. > > How do I set up a dual boot system? > > I use CS3 for dev, DW and PS, and need to find OSS alternatives. For my > IDE, these are the features I like about DW and would like to see in the > software I use: > > 1. Integrated FTP. Right click and put/get files or folders. > 2. Multiple site management. > 3. CF code auto complete/tag insight. > > That's about it. > > For photoshop, really I just need a decent editor, preferably one that can > work with psd's, though I can always boot into windows if need be. > > Also, I would like to be able to remote desktop to a windows xp machine, as > my server is running that and I may need to access it from time to time. > > So what distro should I look at? > > Thanks! > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Want to reach the ColdFusion community with something they want? Let them know on the House of Fusion mailing lists Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:316572 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
