I'm not as serious a web developer as some, and at the moment I have a job doing back end Ruby stuff mostly, but I have to keep an eye to the future just in case. I come from a back end programming background, and have tried to get into front end a bit, though I seem to prefer back end work and do better with that. That had something to do with why my last stint with web development ended which was my first job doing web stuff, though it was PHP and the management got sick of me trying to push Rails ..
I saw there are some u-tube videos on dual booting with vmware, I'll have to check them out when I am someplace with a higher speed internet. From a quick look at some web sites, it seems like at least a slightly complicated thing to figure out .. If I got a mac, I could possibly set up my older HP laptop to run Ubuntu, it has 500 meg of ram .. I thought I saw ubuntu can run in 380 meg of ram, but I'm not sure if 500 is ideal or not. Assuming it was, that way I'd have ITunes on the mac and could still play with a serious linux distro and put my old laptop to good use as it is getting bogged down with XP it seems as time goes on .. On Dec 27, 1:57 pm, "Hassan Schroeder" <[email protected]> wrote: > On Sat, Dec 27, 2008 at 10:04 AM, [email protected] > > <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Hey, that's really interesting. I found dell laptops with ubuntu > > starting at > > $500.http://www.dell.com/content/topics/segtopic.aspx/linux_3x?c=us&cs=19&;... > > > I assume that they could read from my external drive as well ? > > Presumably :-) > > > Can ITunes run on ubuntu ? > > No, though you could run it on Windows under VMWare (or Parallels) > > > Is installation of software involve more steps > > and complexity on ubuntu ? > > Sorry, too vague a question to reasonably answer, IMO. > > > anyway, that's a good price, what advantages do you think a mac has ? > > As I said -- on a Mac, you can do browser testing (or desktop software > testing, for that matter) of the three major platforms: Mac/Win/*nix. > > On a Windows or *nix machine, you only get two of those three. > > I like OmniGraffle for IA work (flow charts, etc.). And there's consumer > stuff that's available for Mac and Win* that isn't available for *nix, but > you just have to decide how important that is to you. > > My primary dev system for a long time was a SuSE desktop machine > so I was used to the minimal-consumer-toys issue. Though I had to > use it for a week recently when my MBP logic board died and mostly > I missed Twitterific :-) > > Anyway, HTH! > -- > Hassan Schroeder ------------------------ [email protected] --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
