Installing a dual boot machine is easy with today's Linux distributions. A couple of months ago I used Octave to do some tasks in mathematics in both Ubuntu Linux and Windows 7. Ubuntu Linux distrubution lacked of some libraries and for these reason at the end I shifted to Windows to accomplish the work with Octave.
There are to many IDEs in Linux to develop in C and C++ . Anjuta, for example is an IDE belonging to Gnome. I have installed Dev-C++ IDE for Windows in a Linux machine by using WINE (The windows emulator in Linux) but it doesn't make sense to do it. Probably, most common choices in both OS are NetBeans and Eclipse. Virtual Machines always have crashed when I have used them. Hasta pronto y éxitos 2012/2/26 Owen Densmore <[email protected]> > I have a friend who has an AMD processor based Windows system (Windows 7 > IIRC). > > He wishes to convert it to a dual-boot Windows/Linux system, with two > bootable partitions, one for each OS. > > Many years ago I did this sort of thing, but a lot has changed. > > Do any of us have experience with this? A good pointer/site on how to do > this? > > He does seem to be confused a bit about all the possibilities: > - Virtual Box > - Cygwin > - Dual boot (with both partitions being bootable) > - Which distro to use (He mainly wants to do development w/ C/C++ within > the mathematics world) > > I was surprised that he thought it necessary to use linux .. I presumed he > could do everything he wanted to do in Windows itself but apparently > compilers were not there and that sort of thing. I do know on the mac you > can install a "developer's sdk" for free (have to register) and presumed > that was also possible with Windows. > > Any pointers much appreciated! And alternatives too. > > -- Owen > > ============================================================ > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College > lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org > -- Alfredo
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