Author: Christophe Theron
Date: 11:41:54 01/03/03
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On January 03, 2003 at 09:33:29, Vincent Diepeveen wrote:
>On January 02, 2003 at 21:15:57, Christophe Theron wrote:
>
>>On January 02, 2003 at 21:10:20, Matthew White wrote:
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>>>I believe Metrowerks has a linux version of Codewarrior for Redhat which (at one
>>>point) was free, though I am not sure if it still is. A very viable alternative
>>>is Eclipse (http://www.eclipse.org), an open-source IDE which is quite nice.
>>>
>>>Matt
>>
>>
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>>Have you tried it yourself?
>
>Here you ask *the* important question. Most 'hear' something about
>linux. Never try themselves. When you try things yourself you get disgusted
>very quickly.
I have to agree with you.
Read the reviews and you can see that Linux has everything. Developpement
environnements, Server utilies, Office suites, games, you-name-it.
Try them by yourself and you realize that less than 10% of that stuff works
and/or is usable...
I don't want to make bad publicity to Linux, but it's just that I think that one
has to be objective about the state of the OS, and the applications you can run
on it.
I still believe Linux will play a major part in the future. It's just that it is
not ready at this time.
But if I can help it I will do it.
For now I don't care if just 10% of the applications are usable. As long as
among these 10% I can find the applications I need, I'm happy.
>Note that most tools that people mention are no better than
>straight programming in X. I did a few years ago myself and it wasn't
>difficult to create a pulldown menu.
>
>I did it under HP-UX though. do not know whether it works similar under
>linux.
>
>tcl/tk i cannot advice though. such things is for nerds who want to
>create non commercial stuff.
For now I just want to create console applications. Maybe I could start by
releasing an XBoard version of Chess Tiger for Linux. Many people have XBoard
already.
Christophe
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