Re: FN-FORUM: Microcock / Linux / Ramblings of a fat man

date posted 20th August 2003 19:11

Linux IS usable as a dev platform, I found Mandrake 8.1 a doddle, even with
a Prophet4500 graphics card.

Driver support on the whole is pretty good, as is KDE etc, main thing I use
it for now is an apache box on an old 486.
Mainly because I switched to RedHat 9 and I cant get MX to run very well in
Wine - same with UO - something nasty using Glib 2 whereas RH9 has Glib3.
Its all greek to me!

Personally my idea setup - where all my spare cash is being saved towards,
is an old 300 with Apache, an nice 2600+ for games and the wife, and an iMac
for work :)

And I KNOW they can talk to each other - the wonders of TCP/IP :)
----- Original Message -----
From: "Dan Norcott" [EMAIL REMOVED]
To: [EMAIL REMOVED]
Sent: Wednesday, August 20, 2003 8:50 AM
Subject: FN-FORUM: Microcock / Linux / Ramblings of a fat man


>
> Hey hey
>
> During a recent conversation with Andy about the annoying nature of XP's
> draconian licensing policies, I started wondering about Linux. I've used
it
> quite a bit through SSH, to muck about with web servers and stuff, but
> haven't really any experience of it as a desktop environment.
>
> Spoke to a geekier chum, who used various linux GUIs for a year, and his
> general feelings were that they're not quite there yet, but it was about a
> year ago he made the switch back to windows. How many of you actually use
> linux as a development environment - through GNOME or whatever - and do
you
> like it? It is stable? Is there a reasonably easy to configure setup
that
> delivers functionality comparable to windows without the whole 'pay bill'
> scenario, or hours of tedious configuration? Are there big lists of
things
> that you can and can't do?
>
> Bit of a broad question, I know, but if anyone has any thoughts, my brain
> could do with a bit of filling up.
>
> Ta,
> Dan.
>
>
>
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