Re: new to programming in Linux

From: Tim (not_at_likely.com)
Date: 06/22/04

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    >>
    >> >> The SunONE IDE was completely unusable on my PIII 900MHz
    >> >> laptop.
    >> > Memory, eh? The most significant thing for Java slowness is short of
    >> > system memory.
    >>
    >> 256 MiB core and 512 MiB swap should be enough for one program! This
    >> was on a Windows machine, BTW. That is more than average, and if it
    >> can't run in that much, that's not acceptable.
    >>

    Absolutely!

    >> --
    >> Roger Leigh
    >
    > I run Eclipse 3.0 on my 2.8 GHz dual xeon with 2GB memory. While it is
    > "usable" I shudder to think about using a lesser platform. Running native
    > apps like kdevelop and designer, things zip right along. If the original
    > poster is looking for a nice IDE environment I can recommend Eclipse, but
    > be prepared to cough up the hardware. I am using it for both java and c++
    > work. I have not tried the gui builder plugin so for building dialogs so I
    > cannot testify about the performance. I recommend learning about the linux
    > api to get a handle on the basics of linux programming, and then move up
    > the food chain to an IDE style tool. Once there you will have a better
    > understanding of things when they go wrong and all you get is some IDE
    > pretty dialog box telling you "something bad happened". Good luck.
    > bob

    Thanks for that advice.

    Far out! I can't believe the hardware specs getting thrown around! I'm
    developing on a P3 450MHz-256Mb, but I want to write one program in
    particular that will run on my old 486-66 16mb ram (non-GUI in that case
    though).

    Sounds like C++ is my best bet - I'm working through a tutorial and really
    it doesn't look that hard compared to VB ;-)

    This is a great newsgroup BTW. Excellent responses.

    Tim

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