On Sat, 3 Apr 2004, guy keren wrote: > > 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 ofthe 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 dial0, 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] > > > +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ > This Mail Was Scanned By Mail-seCure System > at the Tel-Aviv University CC. >
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