Ronald Vogelaar wrote:
Bryan Lund wrote:
Ronald Vogelaar wrote:
In short, the state of RB on Linux perfectly matches the state of
Linux itself?
...looks promising, but (still!) not quite there yet.
Maybe you're using an old distro or something.
Ummm, no.
Let me clarify. I am a UNIX/Linux administrator. As such I must keep up
with many different distributions (Gentoo is my favorite). On the server
side of things, Linux will do just fine for the most part (plenty of
webservers running on Linux just fine).
On the desktop side however, Linux still is lightyears behind OSX or
even Windows(!).
I'm sorry dude, but Linux just doesn't cut it on the desktop in
corporate Europe.
See also this link:
http://osnews.com/story.php/16783/Has-the-Desktop-Linux-Bubble-Burst/
I see OS X as behind both Vista and modern Linux distro's (OpenSuse10.2,
Ubuntu Edgy, FC6, etc) in a variety of areas. But, as a general rule,
all three are very usable. In fact, I can't think of a single thing
that Linux is "lightyears behind OSX or even Windows" on.
I'm running RB2006r4 on OSX intensively. I can have RB open and running
and me working with it for days on end without a single crash or problem.
I haven't tried Rb2k6r4 on Windows (or Linux) yet, so I can't compare.
Wait. You haven't run the latest build on either platform? Then why on
earth are you commenting on it? :) Your statement of "...looks
promising, but (still!) not quite there yet." for both RB and Linux has
nothing to back it up then.
As a general rule RB works well on all three platforms. I use Linux as
my primary development platform with the rest of the time divided
between 10.4 and Vista. Compile times and IDE responsiveness is about
the same under Vista and Linux on relatively modern hardware. And is
considerably slower under 10.4 on both a dual G5 and a MacBook Pro (both
with 2 gigs of ram). It's not unusable by any stretch... but both
Windows and Linux are running peppier for me. With the latest release
I'm not having crashing under any platform.
Now, earlier this year RB was not in a great state for Linux. It was
slow, and crash-y. But all that cleared up as the year progressed.
And R4 is certainly solid enough for day to day development.
Well no disrespect but the report I replied to seems to beg to differ.
Not at all. The email you replied to mentioned, that I saw, two or
three bugs in RB. And then basically went on to talk about some non-RB
related items that he didn't like about his particular Linux setup (and
he certainly didn't seem to be comfortable on the Linux side of
things... no offense intended at all to the original poster).
Hell, I could draft an email right now with a handful of known bugs on
the OS X side under R4 that would make it sounds like RB is completely
unusable for any purpose under 10.4. But, those of us that use it for a
living know that isn't the case.
I make a living right now because RB works well on Linux. In the few
cases where it has critical bugs, you'll hear me standing on a mountain
top screaming. But, over-all, it's one of the most solid development
toolsets available for Linux.
-Bryan
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