On Tuesday 27 January 2009 08:59:51 Eran Arbel wrote: > Hi, some time reader, first time writer. > I'm a second year CS student and had to work with the Linux in the farms > for a while now and frankly, I love the idea that someone finally forced me > to use Linux. I think it's a good thing. > > I've already had stuff explained to me and had a chance to explain things > to others. I already told people that they better get used to using the > Linux and Unix on the farm machines. Firstly, because they have to; > Secondly, because it's better; And thirdly, because it's fun. > > Problems of Windows\Linux compatibility with code files I solved with > Notepad++. I don't know if there's a Linux version or a Linux substitute > but it's an awesome writer for windows that can display context in many > languages and can also convert to\from Windows from\to Linux formatting. > Saved me a lot of trouble
First of all, you can always use tofrodos to do the conversion if needed: http://www.thefreecountry.com/tofrodos/index.shtml And otherwise, vim and other text editors for Linux are capable of converting from CRLF to LF and vice-versa, but I cannot tell you off-hand how to do that. (See the online help). As for Notepad++ - while open-source, it directly uses the Win32 API and so will only potentially run on Linux using Wine or libwine or whatever. I haven't tried that, so I don't know if it will work or not. > > The new Open Office version (3 and up) is completely compatible with > MS-Office 2007 documents and gave me no trouble as much as I've used it, > making it better than MS-Office if compatibility is the question. It looks > different but doesn't require that much of a leap to change to. And it's > freely available to both Windows and Linux users. > > I used vim to program on the Linux and Unix machines but my brother > recommended Eclipse so I want to try that if anyone is willing to teach me. I've been happily using gvim for Perl, Python, Haskell, Bash, C and C++ programming. I have tried using Eclipse for C++ debugging with CDT and was heavily disappointed. The menus were way too crowded with menu items, and it barely run on my work machine which "only" had a 1 GB of RAM. Eclipse is still reportedly better for Java development, but I haven't done a lot of that. There are a few projects for Eclipse and Vim integration out there if anyone's interested: http://www.google.com/search?q=vim+eclipse&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8 > > I know of a Linux geek in the CS farm's support team but I think it takes > more than that. I don't know how the W2L lectures went before but I agree > that installing Linux, as far as I tried Ubuntu, is pretty straight > forward. It's all the configuration afterwords that's troublesome. Up until > now I have failed completely at configuring mine for WiFi and a secondary > display and those two, along with 'How the hell do I run a Virtual > Machine\Box on my Linux?' are the major hurdles before I completely switch I didn't have trouble running Virtual Box on my Mandriva Cooker system. It should be present in the repositories of Ubuntu. Virtual Box is open-source. You can also try VMware Server, which is proprietary but gratis. Regards, Shlomi Fish -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- Shlomi Fish http://www.shlomifish.org/ Interview with Ben Collins-Sussman - http://xrl.us/bjn8s <mauke> I'm not interested in what you're doing; what are you trying to achieve? <PerlJam> mauke: I'm trying to achieve world peace and this regex is the last thing standing in my way! ;) _______________________________________________ Haifux mailing list Haifux@haifux.org http://hamakor.org.il/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/haifux
