On Sep 18, 12:28 pm, Bruce Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
> On Sep 18, 2008, at 9:02 AM, LinuxMercedes wrote:
>
>
>
> > Hi,
>
> > First of all, thank you to everyone who replied!
>
> > Second--more detail. I'm a student, so anything helpful with making
> > my work easier is good =].
>
> What kind of student :-) I can point you to pile of of cool OSS
> biology/genetics/bioinformatics tools...
Well, graduating high school this year...then probably a major in
either Computer Science or something related to Audio Production...
>
> > I'll also be programming C++, Java, Ruby,
> > Perl, etc. on this machine. And I'm interested in any software
> > related to audio editing as well.
>
> Go sign up at Apple's Developer site (free) and install the Developer
> Tools. This gives you a whole pile of development stuff.
Ok.
>
>
>
> > Let me ask another question: what is the best free/opensource
> > programmer's editor for Mac? I've used Scite on my Windows and Linux
> > boxen, but haven't seen a download for OSX...
>
> There's a bunch of 'em, but my favorite is TextWrangler from
> BBEdit.com. It's fee, not OSS, but it's a great tool. I use it daily,
> it comes with context coloring for all the languages I work with
> (Perl, HTML, SQL, etc) and has a lot of useful expandability.
Neat.
>
> If you do any sort of SQL stuff, go get DBVisualizer <http://minq.se>
> there's a free personal version, which is a really solid multi-
> database tool. It lets me do all my dev work, regardless of DBMS, in
> one tool.
>
> Audio editing, get Audacity, and don't overlook Garage Band, which
> came with your system.
>
> Check out Macports <http://www.macports.org/> to move tons of stuff
> over from Linux to the Mac.
>
> Check out your favorite Linux OSS projects, many have OS X ports
> already.
>
> Just about anything done with the QT libs is available for OS X, too.
>
> If you absolutely, positively have to run a Windows or Linux VM on
> your system, go here <http://www.virtualbox.org/>
I've got it...it's a tad slow, but it works ok, I guess.
>
> It's seen enormous improvement since Sun took it over.
>
> Welcome to the Mac.
Thank you!
>
> --
> Bruce Johnson
> University of Arizona
> College of Pharmacy
> Information Technology Group
>
> Institutions do not have opinions, merely customs
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