On Thu, Jul 23, 2009 at 8:44 AM, Dos-Man 64<[email protected]> wrote: > I actually would have switched over to linux a while ago, but there's > been hardware-related issues, mostly with video cards and sound cards.
When did you have these problems? These problems seem to be largely a thing of the past these days. At least at the kernel level. > I've also written a lot software with VB, C, Delphi, etc. The idea of > not having these programs available to me anymore gives me the > shivers. Porting them over is not going to be easy. Command line > programming won't be a problem, but I don't have a lot of familiarity > with LINUX GUI programming. I know a little Java, but I don't like it. > I tried to download Kylix, but I couldn't find it. I'm hoping I will > be able to get free pascal properly configured. Might be able to make > some good things happen with that. Ya, Kylix appears to have been abandoned. In case you hadn't found it yet, Lazarus seems to be what you're looking for. Since it's part of freepascal, which you've already mentioned, this is probably old news to you http://www.lazarus.freepascal.org/ As for porting, you could look into wine. I don't mean just running them under wine, I'm refering to linking against the wine libraries as stand-ins for the windows libraries you would normally compile against. There are some VB implementations in Linux as well. I've never looked into them, but you might have some luck there. For GUI programming the two main choices are Gtk and Qt. There are many others, but those are the main two. If you're looking to upgrade languages, there's Mono, which would provide some GUI capabilities. Given your apparent thoughts on .Net, I'm guess that's out of the question. ~Ryan -- http://rmgraham.blogspot.com http://twitter.com/rmgraham --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Linux Users Group. To post a message, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit our group at http://groups.google.com/group/linuxusersgroup -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
