Setting the system up.
Okay so this post will be about actually using the system. As you probably already saw in my previous post about Blender there is some pretty amazing software out there for Linux. The company I work for codes primarily in Java. So I needed to of course grab the Java Development Kit or JDK from Sun. This is in binary form on their website java.sun.com and installed without any hitches. It also came with a free Integrated Development Environment called Netbeans. Here's a screenshot of it in action:
You may have noticed that the window controls look vaguely like Mac OSX. That's a little theme I added to my desktop called acqua. Got to love it! Anyways this is the first version I started using, and I did use it on windows before I made the switch. Netbeans is now up to version 4.1, and it uses an ant based project file. It's quite a long stretch from version 3.6 that I started with. It's a lot smoother for building files. You can produce war files directly without having to do it manually like you had to with earlier versions, and the profiler is quite amazing. Because of the ease of use I've stuck with it rather than Eclipse. Having said that Eclipse has a crazy amount of addons, and plugins for it. So if it's pluggability you're looking for Eclipse is the ide for you. I'm waiting for Netbeans to become more supportive of C/C++, and other languages so I can use it for all my coding. As it is I'm using 3 different IDEs for all the types of coding I do. I messed up my KDevelop environment, which stinks in a way, but in another it keeps the number of IDEs down to 3 ;-)
I'll talk about the best way to upgrade Mandriva in a future post. (Basically don't use the built in upgrade function if you value your sanity!) Between this an the excellent PIM tool Kontact I haven't needed to use windows except for the odd video application that doesn't exist in Linux. (Who would have thought a simple translation of rotating a frame 90 degrees in an avi wouldn't be supported) All things considered though, I could live without the need for windows very easily. I haven't booted into windows for almost a month now.
Anyways it's 3:26AM, and I've been coding since 9:00PM yesterday I think I'll call it a day. See you next post.
-NT
You may have noticed that the window controls look vaguely like Mac OSX. That's a little theme I added to my desktop called acqua. Got to love it! Anyways this is the first version I started using, and I did use it on windows before I made the switch. Netbeans is now up to version 4.1, and it uses an ant based project file. It's quite a long stretch from version 3.6 that I started with. It's a lot smoother for building files. You can produce war files directly without having to do it manually like you had to with earlier versions, and the profiler is quite amazing. Because of the ease of use I've stuck with it rather than Eclipse. Having said that Eclipse has a crazy amount of addons, and plugins for it. So if it's pluggability you're looking for Eclipse is the ide for you. I'm waiting for Netbeans to become more supportive of C/C++, and other languages so I can use it for all my coding. As it is I'm using 3 different IDEs for all the types of coding I do. I messed up my KDevelop environment, which stinks in a way, but in another it keeps the number of IDEs down to 3 ;-)
I'll talk about the best way to upgrade Mandriva in a future post. (Basically don't use the built in upgrade function if you value your sanity!) Between this an the excellent PIM tool Kontact I haven't needed to use windows except for the odd video application that doesn't exist in Linux. (Who would have thought a simple translation of rotating a frame 90 degrees in an avi wouldn't be supported) All things considered though, I could live without the need for windows very easily. I haven't booted into windows for almost a month now.
Anyways it's 3:26AM, and I've been coding since 9:00PM yesterday I think I'll call it a day. See you next post.
-NT
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