[thelist] Developing in Linux
Hassan Schroeder
hassan.schroeder at gmail.com
Mon May 12 09:54:16 CDT 2008
On Mon, May 12, 2008 at 7:21 AM, Fred Jones <fredthejonester at gmail.com> wrote:
> I will point out that many of us remember when there was virtually no
> such thing as a GUI for reading mail in Unix, I being one of them.
The point to make here is that it's not either/or -- GUI/CLI. In Windows
you have a GUI and a crippled, er, sorry, feature-challenged "CMD"
"shell"; in *nix you have a GUI and your choice of built-in powerful
shells with many, many utilities (e.g. find, grep, sed). But of course
there are useful GUI tools for many tasks as well -- your choice.
> Looks like Linux wants me I guess. LOL.
> I wouldn't normally take so much bandwidth with an issue that is
> somewhat relevant only personally, but anyway thelist is fairly quiet today.
I think a discussion of developer tools isn't too OT :-)
> I just wanted to add that it's not as though I can't work on Ubuntu, it
> just seems that several tools are better on Windows.
I'd second the suggestion of jEdit for a text editor, and if you're still
having trouble opening large files, either join the jEdit user mailing
list or ping me off-list.
Have fun :-)
--
Hassan Schroeder ------------------------ hassan.schroeder at gmail.com
More information about the thelist
mailing list