On Sun, 08 Oct 2006 11:03, Chris Hellyar wrote:
You missed an important detail...
So I did! It's LAPP web dev, with very little of the front end and no
traditional GUI at all, just some of the more 'tricky' CSS, so I'm happy
all the tools exist to do what I need to - it's really the connecting
to MS file servers that concerns me. If I were to use XP apparently I'd
be using Notepad or Dreamweaver for development, and I'm not really a
fan of either so I'd like to get linux going.
I've been hearing good things about Eclipse for a while, along with
XDebug, so I'll set them up at home and see what happens. I've been
putting it off as I haven't been able to find rpms for SuSE 9.1, it's
really time I moved onto something a little more modern anyway.
OpenOffice should be plenty functional enough for my needs, it's done me
fine in the past.
I don't think they are a prejudiced crowd - they seem fully aware that
the public face of their business runs on OS software - but a good first
linux desktop experience would be nice. I have a KUbuntu 6.06 CD here,
so I'll nip down to PC Broker tomorrow and get a 'box' to throw it onto.
Email hadn't occured to me as a problem so thanks for pointing that out
Nick, I'll be a little better prepared now,
How well does a 'USB distro' run - is it fast enough to work on full
time, or really just for trouble shooting? My problem with something
like SLAX would really be that I don't know what I need! I also have
speed concerns about Virtualisation, I'll see what the PC is when I get
there.
So, here's what I'm thinking now:
1/ Get cheap 'box' and test KUbuntu, Eclipse and XDebug at home. Check
KDE & google for a 'connect to Network Neighbourhood widget' and a Samba
config tool.
2/ Use KUbuntu as a live CD and make sure the provided PC isn't too curly
3/ Ensure connections to all required servers (inc email) work
4/ Install
5/ Smile
Many thanks for all your help - did I miss anything?
Cheers,
Andy
