Regardless of distro, I'd recommend: - Terminal Server Client to connect to M$ servers if the case - Samba to connect to and to share file systems - My personal preference for programming would be Eclipse or NetBeans or Java Studio even if you don't use java, they have interesting editors for most of the languages, with auto completion for some - OpenOffice for documents - If you use database development, some form of database connectivity layer like unixODBC or vendor provider gateway (most of the major ones provide connectivity for linux). With MSSQL will be a bit complicated, you'll have to work a little there.
Depending on what exactly you're going to do in your new role, there may be other tools you'll need like application server admin consoles and such. Hope it helps. Adrian On Sun, 2006-10-08 at 09:23 +1300, Andy Leach wrote: > Hi All, > > I'm starting a new job next week, the management are happy for me to > take XP off the provided machine and put a Linux desktop on if it'll > keep me happy and make me more productive :o) > > I've never needed to run linux in a windows environment before but I > understand that I'll need to set up Samba to let me talk to the servers. > With my 'less than guru' level of knowledge I wondered what distro(s) > you'd recommend for this task? > > I'd like it to be KDE based and as quick and trivial to set up as > possible as the current developer leaves on a Friday and I start the > following Monday... > > Cheers, > > Andy
