(i'm responding only because i didn't see the more qualified people respond to this yet)
On Thu, 1 Apr 2004 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I got a chance to install Linux on my office desktop (next to Windows > XP, for now). > I'd like to install something which will impress them the most with > stability and usability, > and mostly as a developer station. > > I expect to need it for: > 1. Develop in Java (we already have an Eclipse-based full environment) > 2. Develop in C++ (right now development is done on VC++ and only builds > are done on > Linux/Solaris/AIX) > 3. Access CVS (through the Eclipse CVS plugin is the best GUI for this, > so it might > not be necessary to have a separate tool) > 3. Access Exchange 2003 server (I already asked Ximian for a price offer > for their connector > to use with Evolution) > 4. Share disks with other UN*X and windows (NFS, Samba and remote CIFS > mounts of course) > 5. Maybe share user database (LDAP?) > > Our sys admin is not quite cooperative on this front, so there are > limitations on what exactly > can be done. > > We already have CD's of RH 8 and RH9 at the office. We expect to see > both of them at customer > sites. from stability point of view, you should install RH 9.0 - but it's a "dead goat" because of redhat's recent moves. i got my PC installed with fedora (fedora core I - with the patches that were available from redhat at the time). i use it for java development (althought i don't use an IDE yet...) and it works mostly stable. it's overloaded since i run on it something that was planned to be run on 3-4 different machines, but it did not crash on me yet. it's open-office seems to be the version that doesn't support hebrew (althought i think it should - i think it's version 1.1.0 or soemthing similar - perhaps this is just a fonts problem?), but it shows the english documents written inside the company quite ok (until there are drawings in the documents - that's where it 'squashes' the drawing onto the text). i use mozilla for surfing, since i was too lazy to get a different browser there. since the machine has a pentium 4 with hyper-threading, i installed an SMP kernel and it now runs with '2 CPUs' - does windows XP does this out of the box, by the way? (i don't know since i didn't check). i was somewhat skeptic about finding RPMs for redora, or running commercial applications - but at least some things seem to work (such as vmware). i didn't yet manage to get the Java IDE (Idea's IntelliJ) running on it - thought i didn't try realy hard. i don't use any C++ IDE either - by my room-mate, which also runs fedora on his desktop, runs both IntelliJ (Java) and anjuta (C/C++) on his fedora with no noticeable problems. > I should also be careful not to setup something too shaky if I want to > convicne them to switch the > entire office to Linux desktops. why do you want to do that? people should stick with what gives them their pleasure - unless this is an "everyone must have the same platform" kind of office. as for the issue of developing on windows and deploying on Unix - i've seen that somewhere, and that was part of what kept me away from that place... -- guy "For world domination - press 1, or dial 0, and please hold, for the creator." -- nob o. dy ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
