Re: need advice during abandonment of windows


"Jan Panteltje" <pNaonStpealmtje@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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On a sunny day (Thu, 22 May 2008 22:17:46 -0700) it happened "glenn"
<gs555@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in <%rsZj.242$xZ.240@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:

I am seriously considering leaving the world according to gates, and
moving
to Linux, probably RedHat. Each new version of windoze adds more layers
over the win32 and win64 functions, pushing me farther away from the
hardware. I write programs to control machines, such as assembler
workstations, prototype fluid dispensers, etc. I have used C/C++ for
fifteen years, and hate to give up the closeness of hardware and device
drivers.

I am reading a book, out of date some, Linux Kernel Development by Robert
Love, Second Edition. I am using it to familiarize myself with the
kernal,
and I have tinkered with QT3 some using the serial port to talk to a known
good machine I developed several years ago using MSVC++ 6.0. QT is fine
and
all, but I am looking for advice on other compilers and useful IDE's. As
a
beginner to Linux, I realize I have a rather lengthy learning curve to
tackle, but I feel it will be well worth it.

I am so pissed at microsloth, I will spend any amount of hours to learn
this
stuff. Even some of my customers have asked about the possibility of
using
Linux for future projects, and that was music to my ears. For those of
you
that wish to defend the world of gates, please, I am not looking for an
argument between different operating systems. I just need solid advice to
get started.

I found a few web sites, like gcc.gnu.org, and hope to find others where
code is peer reviewed. Good book recomendations would be greatly
appreciated.

Thanks in advance.

Glenn Smith
CodeMech Systems (at yahoo.com)

If yo uuse Linux, and download cforms, it has a GUI generator 'fdesign',
that will even write C code for you.
For things like control this GUI is very fast and practice, all you need
to
'write in the callbacks (for the buttons etc) in C.
http://download.savannah.gnu.org/releases/xforms/
Qt is big bloat, Qt-4 even more so, as is the C++ dialect itself.
In fact C++ is a speech disability.



I downloaded QT-4 to test it for a month, and you are right. It is big and
bloated, and it took me forever to do even the most simple things that were
a snap in QT-3.

I actually enjoy C++, but sometimes it does make me feel like I forgot
how to speak English.

Glenn Smith
CodeMech Systems (at yahoo.com)


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