Hi All,
Having rejoined the list I figured I ought to say 'Hi'.
I'll try and come down to one of the meetings if I can, spare giro funds
permitting!!! (time I have plenty of at the mo'!).
I'm no Linux guru but I am an ex 3rd line support Telecoms/Applications
engineer so if you need any telco
On 23/09/2010 15:50, Bryn Jones wrote:
I'll try and come down to one of the meetings if I can, spare giro funds
permitting!!! (time I have plenty of at the mo'!).
Hi Bryn,
I have been on this list for some time and have *never* managed to get
to a meet ;-)
Do be warned I do get vaguely
On 23 September 2010 15:56, Simon P Smith simon.sm...@askitsdone.co.ukwrote:
On 23/09/2010 15:50, Bryn Jones wrote:
I'll try and come down to one of the meetings if I can, spare giro funds
permitting!!! (time I have plenty of at the mo'!).
Hi Bryn,
I have been on this list for some
On Thu, 23 Sep 2010 18:30:28 +0100, Natalie Hooper
nataliehoo...@virginmedia.com wrote:
With the above in mind, which distro would you advise me to install on my
new desktop? I was thinking of perhaps openSuse or Fedora but not too
sure if there is one distro considered better for
Hi Natalie,
With the above in mind, which distro would you advise me to install on
my new desktop? I was thinking of perhaps openSuse or Fedora but not
too sure if there is one distro considered better for programmers?
Stick with Ubuntu. You get six monthly updates. There's a wide range
of
Thank you all for your answers.
It seems that the consensus is to stick with what I know, ie Ubuntu or
Debian. Gentoo seems like too much work involved just to get it running...
I have found Ubuntu quite unstable at time - the last upgrade was quite
stressful for example. Eclipse, which is an
If you're using Eclipse for C/C++ programming with CDT, you might try
MonoDevelop.
It doesn't have the 'intellisense' feature when dealing with C++, but it
is a reliable IDE and has a nice package manager which makes integrating
libraries automatic.
I use both and have had few problems.
Of course
On 23/09/10 21:39, Natalie Hooper wrote:
The frequent Ubuntu upgrades are
actually a negative for me, too many risks of things going wrong too often.
Sometimes, it takes up to 2 months to get the system working as well as it
did before the upgrade - in fact, right now, I haven't got mine
Eclipse, which is an IDE I use fairly often, is a lot
less stable than it was - in fact, it isn't stable at all, it crashes about
once every half hour at the moment.
I've Eclipse on a (virtual) XP machine but have never used it under
Linux, so far no problems -- touch wood.
The frequent
On 23/09/10 21:39, Natalie Hooper wrote:
I have found Ubuntu quite unstable at time - the last upgrade was quite
stressful for example. Eclipse, which is an IDE I use fairly often, is a lot
less stable than it was - in fact, it isn't stable at all, it crashes about
once every half hour at the
On 23/09/10 22:25, Dan Dart wrote:
Let others volunteer to be guinea pigs. :-)
Oh, me! me! me! Pick me!
I install betas occasionally and see if they're good enough in a VM.
As soon as they are I use them full time. And make sure everything is
fixed before release day (submitting bug
I never use the packages for eclipse and instead download the latest tarball
and run it from my homedir. Most ide packages suck whatever distro I've
found.
Let others volunteer to be guinea pigs. :-)
Oh, me! me! me! Pick me!
I install betas occasionally and see if they're good enough in a VM.
On Thu, 2010-09-23 at 22:29 +0100, Sean Gibbins wrote:
On 23/09/10 22:25, Dan Dart wrote:
Let others volunteer to be guinea pigs. :-)
Oh, me! me! me! Pick me!
I install betas occasionally and see if they're good enough in a VM.
As soon as they are I use them full time. And make sure
On 23/09/10 22:38, Bryn Jones wrote:
On Thu, 2010-09-23 at 22:29 +0100, Sean Gibbins wrote:
On 23/09/10 22:25, Dan Dart wrote:
Let others volunteer to be guinea pigs. :-)
Oh, me! me! me! Pick me!
I install betas occasionally and see if they're good enough in a VM.
As soon as they are I
I'm aware that the trend is towards VMs - I've been putting it off for a few
months but I guess it might be time for me to experiment with them a little
bit... I'm a little scared - see, I'm worried that it will mean more time
troubleshooting my computer and less time actually using my
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