Linux program developer... trained in the drunken art of windows. Help?

[alexander]

Mac is good, but the fact that mac is intel has nothing to do with developing for it, does not make what you learn any more right or wrong, you are not learning assembly, you are writing in a high level language where architecture matters very little...

[IDMclean]

Ok so I found out where my root terminal was, kinda obvious but i am still disoriented.

 

In any case I changed the permissions on my Netbeans binary and the JDK and installed them. I need to add them to my start menu, but I don't know where to go to do that. In Windows it's drag and drop. Here I don't know.

 

As for the installing KDE, No clue. I was looking at synaptics but I am still un-used to it. How do I A) find and download the KDE stuff, :hihi: Install it. I don't want to have to re-install my OS again. I can modify ubuntu to act like Kbuntu, right? I would appreciate a step by step for this.

[alexander]

its easy... start synaptics, click search, search for kubuntu, select kubuntu-desktop and kubuntu-default-settings, ok all the packages and then click install, then reboot and voila :hihi:

[alexander]

remember there is very seldom a need to reinstall the OS with linux, bascially if you really, really, really screw up like by deleting your /usr directory or by remaking the filesystem (like my friend, by accident), other times it is fixable...

[IDMclean]

Complication. I searched, and found nothing.

 

I've since learned that my system is a Gnome Debian distro. If that means anything.

 

So how do find the and edit the resource thingy? for my package manager, and where would I find a tutorial or reference for Linux that does not require a Computer engineering degree to understand?

[IDMclean]

Ok Update. I crashed my GUI hardcore and messed up my dependencies. I then figured out how to sort it all out from the console at boot up and am back and one update closer to being current.

 

I went from Warty to Breezy, now I think all I have to do is update to Dapper. That was pretty cool, if this was Windows I would have had to reinstall my os and would have lost allot of data.

 

Anyway, I can see KDE on my list now, but I am going to wait until I finish the updates I think.

[alexander]

oh, you were using warty... yeah upgrade to dapper man, all the way... i thought you were running a current version... just install kubuntu-desktop... and there are some repositories in /et/apt/sources.list file that you can uncomment, just dont do doubles...

 

and install automatix, google for it, there should be a howto (if not i could post how to do it), but that will allow you to install JRE, JDK, Gaim 2, proprietary video codecs and all that :) its actually pretty cool... and dont use their gui to do it, just use apt or synaptics front end

[IDMclean]

Alright scoobies, new mystery. My system plays Mp3s and MPGs ok now, but I can't hear midis.

 

Also, How do I go about tweaking my system? In windows XP I could tone down the prettiness to achieve better performance, also how do I change my default programs for opening extensions like Mp3? Is their a control panel or similar, if so where?

 

Also I was concidering just changing over to Kubuntu (Dapper), what are the differences of normal (debian, Gnome) Ubuntu and Kubuntu (?, KDE)?

[alexander]

The difference is that Ubuntu uses Gnome and Kubuntu uses KDE desktop environments. They are different, use different sets of tools, and I'd give Kubuntu a try if i were you... its closer to windows gui, well sorta. Trust me, you will learn a whole lot faster with it, I think.

 

As i run neither of the 2 versions of ubuntu it will be a bit difficult to describe how to change the default programs for openning apps, i will have to get back to you on that one.

 

And tell me what files you need to play, i will tell you which pachages you need to install, or better yet, i'll just write you a bash script to do it...

[Shyam Bharath]

Well,

 

ok i find LAMP to be cool. It is Linux Apache MySQL PHP.

 

I Fedora Core 5, u have PHP 5 with MySQL 5.x preinstalled. Anyway their Linux distros can be downloaded from their respective sites.

 

vi is good enough for basic php 5 programming :doh:

[alexander]

lol, LAMP is also Linux Apache MySQL Python, and there also are LAPP Linux Apache Postgres PHP as well as LAMROR Linux Apache MySQL Ruby On Rails.

 

And Ruby is a way cooler platform for web development, it is amazingly better then PHP in many aspects, not to say PHP is not good, but Ruby with Rails is just frigging amazing....

 

Vi can't make me a cup of coffee, emacs can :)

[TheFaithfulStone]

Vi can't make me a cup of coffee, emacs can :hihi:

 

Lines have been drawn. Lines which are in the sand.

 

Even a

Master of

Arts

Comes

Simpler

 

Escape Meta Alt Control Shift.

 

:)

[IDMclean]

New question, what the heck is Emacs?

 

Also, I want to learn Ruby, I have a book for it, but I haven't setup for developing in it yet. I want to learn Ruby, J, Java, C++, and OpenGL. What would be best to setup on a Kubuntu system for programming/designning/developing in those.

 

I'm fairly certain that Ruby has hooks for OGL, as does C++ and I haven't checked on the JOGL project lately. I had heard Ruby is fairly good for game development, or game tool development. Anyone got anything to add?

 

The book by the way is:

Programming Ruby: The Pragmatic Programmer's Guide

by Dave Thomas with Chad Fowler and Andy Hunt,

Second edition with Ruby 1.8

[alexander]

emacs is a text editor with a built in support for Lisp which allows you to make modules for it to do anything, infact some people (one and very very few in between) run emacs as their operating environment... Parts of emacs are actually written by stallman, he also is the top priest in the church of emacs. This and much more is avaliable on wikipedia and emacs page, and emacs can make you coffee :lol:

 

anyways you will need to install ruby gcc and sun-jdk that you can only install either by downloading it from sun or by setting up automatix repositories (google for automatix and you will receive)

you also want kdevelop and its documentation

as for opengl, i hope you have a supported graphics card, but anyhow, you are probably already using it, you just need to read the API (available in Kdevelop (you need to go into documentation) and like a gazillion websites)

[TheFaithfulStone]

New question, what the heck is Emacs?

 

The shorter answer is what isn't Emacs.

 

It's a text editor that includes Eliza, a Zippy the Pinhead Quote Generator, a Zork Clone, and any thing else you can dream up.

 

TFS

[IDMclean]

I have a Geforce 4 Mx 440 AGP 8x, PCI. Geforce from what I hear supports OpenGL more than ATI does, and Linux uses pretty much exclusively OpenGL as it's Graphical language. So on that front I figure I should be pretty well setup. If not, do elaborate.

[alexander]

well, opengl is used in linux guis anyways, so you have it installed already (unless you were running a command line system only...)

 

if you wanna play with something cool though, play with gnu 8085 simulator :lol: