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Subject: Re: Linux - and chess

Author: Andrew Williams

Date: 03:54:14 07/18/99

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On July 17, 1999 at 08:19:18, Frank Phillips wrote:

>On July 16, 1999 at 22:34:30, Daniel Karlsson wrote:
>
>>For a promising IDE - try KDevelop (www.kdevelop.org). Currently only in alpha
>>but it looks nice. Code Crusader is another one, although I personally didn't
>>like it very much.
>
>Thank you to those who answered.  I will try to locate xwpe and Kdevelop.  And
>read about emacs.
>
>It was not my intention to defend or criticise either W98 or Linux.  I have been
>messing on and off (mostly off, as in put-off) with Linux for about a year.
>Being used to just clicking things in a Windows environment and being guided
>through difficult tasks (those that require any understanding at all) by
>wizards, Linux is something of a culture shock.  Of course the price of
>ignorance is dependency.  From my perspective, Linux is getting better now that
>GUI front ends are being developed (Kde), installation is more automatic and
>there is an element of plug and play.   All these seem to me positive features
>of any desktop OS.  They will hopefully make Linux much more popular to the
>non-technical person and thereby substantially increase the user base - with all
>that will then follow.
>
>What do those of you programming under Linux (Bob Hyatt?) actually use now?
>

I use a nice syntax-highlighting editor called nedit for working on my program.
As for compilation, I just do that from the command-line (using pgcc).

Andrew



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