[PLUG] Why are students/colleges not using *nix systems

2006-12-20 Thread Varun Mehta
Hi All, This is a thread to identify the points each one feels could be the reason why *nix systems are not widely used as compared to M$ systems. Would prefer if people would append their view as points to the list, so in the end we still have a consolidated list. [Some of the points are based o

Re: [PLUG] open source projects

2006-12-20 Thread Aditya Godbole
On 12/21/06, YAGNESH N DESAI <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Surly friends OpenSource is currently in demand but most of the industry in and around Surat is not using it. Like "L&T", "RIL", "Essar" are on M$ while "Torrent power" is on Unix. (I am yet to see an Enterprise on OpenSource I hardly found

Re: [PLUG] open source projects

2006-12-20 Thread YAGNESH N DESAI
Surly friends OpenSource is currently in demand but most of the industry in and around Surat is not using it. Like "L&T", "RIL", "Essar" are on M$ while "Torrent power" is on Unix. (I am yet to see an Enterprise on OpenSource I hardly found a user) I found 2 Linux users in Surat both are students.

Re: [PLUG] C/C++ IDE for *inux systems?

2006-12-20 Thread श्रीधर नारायण दैठणकर
On Wednesday 20 December 2006 23:36, Shakthi Kannan wrote: > --- श्रीधर नारायण दैठ> > णकर <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Unless it is bundled with emacs tarball released > > from the GNU project, may be > > we should stop listing third party extensions. > > Termi

Re: [PLUG] C/C++ IDE for *inux systems?

2006-12-20 Thread mahabir bisht
aybody have any links which i can use to prove my microsoft friends that they use freebsd and apache to host MSN pages On 12/19/06, Varun Mehta <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Like we have eclipse as a nice IDE for Java [I know it can be used for C/C++ also], but can we have some other recommenda

Re: [PLUG] C/C++ IDE for *inux systems?

2006-12-20 Thread nipra
Hi, On 12/20/06, Shakthi Kannan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi Ashish, --- Ashish Belagali <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > (b) What could be the reasons anybody would want to > learn vi or emacs? > than vi. But I am > curious... any other use? I don't know about vi, but, can tell you why I use GNU

Re: [PLUG] C/C++ IDE for *inux systems?

2006-12-20 Thread Shakthi Kannan
Hi, --- श्रीधर नारायण दैठणकर <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Unless it is bundled with emacs tarball released > from the GNU project, may be > we should stop listing third party extensions. Terminology. Third party? Everything I have mentioned is Free Software.

Re: [PLUG] C/C++ IDE for *inux systems?

2006-12-20 Thread श्रीधर नारायण दैठणकर
On Wednesday 20 December 2006 23:00, Shakthi Kannan wrote: > 2. Code browsing. Try using emacs code browser: > > http://ecb.sourceforge.net/ > > for source code referencing. You can also use GNU > global (gtags, htags): > > http://www.gnu.org/software/global/ Unless it is bundled with emacs tarb

Re: [PLUG] C/C++ IDE for *inux systems?

2006-12-20 Thread Shakthi Kannan
Hi Ashish, --- Ashish Belagali <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > (b) What could be the reasons anybody would want to > learn vi or emacs? > than vi. But I am > curious... any other use? I don't know about vi, but, can tell you why I use GNU emacs. 1. Buffers. You are directly dealing with system buff

Re: [PLUG] Virtualization using KVM

2006-12-20 Thread श्रीधर नारायण दैठणकर
On Wednesday 20 December 2006 22:32, ( अमेय पाळंदे ) Ameya Palande wrote: > Using KVM, one can run multiple virtual machines running unmodified > Linux or Windows images. Each virtual machine has private virtualized > hardware: a network card, disk, graphics adapter, etc. I am hoping to see someth

Re: [PLUG] C/C++ IDE for *inux systems?

2006-12-20 Thread श्रीधर नारायण दैठणकर
On Wednesday 20 December 2006 22:10, Ashish Belagali wrote: > Some comments and questions: > > (a) Eclipse will trouble you only if you are running lower than 512 KB RAM > size. Recommend upgrading. You meant 512MB right? Anyways If I put a gig of RAM, I can run at least 10 virtual servers on it.

Re: [PLUG] Virtualization using KVM

2006-12-20 Thread Rahul Sundaram
( अमेय पाळंदे ) Ameya Palande wrote: Hi, Anyone tried using KVM to run unmodified guest under linux ? http://kvm.sourceforge.net/ Any success ? You require virtualization enabled hardware. Xen does para virtualization. More details at http://virt.kernelnewbies.org/ Rahul -- _

[PLUG] Virtualization using KVM

2006-12-20 Thread ( अमेय पाळंदे ) Ameya Palande
Hi, Anyone tried using KVM to run unmodified guest under linux ? http://kvm.sourceforge.net/ Any success ? I found it pretty simple compared to Xen. But it (actually qemu) has issues with gcc 4 compilar. Need older compiler for compiling... :( For those who don't know what is KVM -> KVM (for K

Re: [PLUG] C/C++ IDE for *inux systems?

2006-12-20 Thread Ashish Belagali
Some comments and questions: (a) Eclipse will trouble you only if you are running lower than 512 KB RAM size. Recommend upgrading. (b) What could be the reasons anybody would want to learn vi or emacs? I mean, of course, I find a good use when doing remote log in to my client's solaris machine w

Re: [PLUG] open source projects

2006-12-20 Thread Ashish Belagali
Just to support the fact that open source expertise is certainly in demand! Cost-saving is one thing.. the inherent robustness of many tools and the adherance to latest standards is another bigger appeal. We companies woo our customers on the basis of all these factors... and guess what expertise