On Sun, 08 Oct 2006 11:03, Chris Hellyar wrote: > You missed an important detail... > > What type of development are you doing? If it's web work, you probably > need very little connectivity to the system. If it's GUI development > for workstations in the windows arena you're gonna have difficulty > justifying Linux on your PC.
Might I interject here? I've had a MinGW32 cross-compiler installed on my Linux PC and I've been able to compile Win32 API programs that run flawlessly in both WiNE and in the genuine Windows environment. That includes GUI programs, needless to say - MinGW32 just doesn't have the big graphics-intensive IDE such as you'll find in MS Visual [PL] [Express], so to do icon-making work etc, you'll need either a native Linux IDE with the graphics tools built-in, or use the separate tools you can find in any decent Linux distro. Just my 0.02c - heavily inflated, of course! ;) Wesley Parish > > I run Linux in a mixed windows/linux WAN, and do a lost of stuff vi > rdesktop to a terminal services server, but do web/linux stuff locally. > > Cheers, Me. > > 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 -- Clinersterton beademung, with all of love - RIP James Blish ------------- Mau ki ana, he aha te mea nui? You ask, "What is the most important thing?" Maku ki ana, he tangata, he tangata, he tangata. I reply, "It is people, it is people, it is people." ------------- notcatweazle.wordpress.com - Some unmagical musings
