Hey Scott, Right before RailsConf, I installed Ubuntu on my Dell. I had tried Kubuntu a week before, but found that it was practically the same user experience as when I had tried it 3 years ago. Ick!
Personal feelings aside, I would go with Ubuntu 8.04 (with Gnome). I have found it one of the easiet OS's to work with, second only to OS X, and they have alot of great new features. Very impressive. Highly recommended. Here are some good addon's for Ubuntu to ease the Rails transition: Avant Window Navigator Geany Text Editor (haven't played much with it, but hope to soon!) My only beef with it was that Firefox 3 Beta 5 came as default, and it's not ready for primetime IMHO for web devers. I had to install Firebug through apt-get just to get it to play nice, but it's still a tad bit buggy, even after Firefox RC2 was released this week. If anyone wants to go the Hackintosh way, this was a good link: http://lifehacker.com/348653/install-os-x-on-your-hackintosh-pc-no-hacking-required But yeah, Ubuntu Hardy Heron with Gnome all the way! Shoot me an email if you have any more questions on getting a Linux dev environment setup. Regards, Adam On Thu, Jun 12, 2008 at 9:43 PM, Scott Olmsted <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Someone asked me on IRC today how Ubuntu was going and left before I got > back to them. > > Actually, not so good, mostly from my inexperience with Linux (kind of > ironic, I used Unix exclusively for a couple years in the 80's, before bash, > and before years of Windoze wiped out what I knew), but partly because I > chose the latest version of Kubuntu (8.04 with KDE4), which freezes > occasionally. Apparently this is a known problem, and the advice I found > online is to wait for version 4.2 of KDE (now on version 4.04). > > So, should I try 8.04 with "rock solid" KDE3? Should I go back to 7.04? > Should I skip KDE and just use Ubuntu 7.04? > > Thx, > Scott > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ SD Ruby mailing list [email protected] http://groups.google.com/group/sdruby -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
