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sdeming [Member] in response to: Linux .. Windows .. Linux .. Ugh

sdeming [Member] — Tue, 20 Apr 2010 13:39:47 +0000

I'll get right on that. As soon as I sell ... uh, I have nothing to sell.

Jason Rogers [Visitor] in response to: Linux .. Windows .. Linux .. Ugh

Jason Rogers [Visitor] — Tue, 20 Apr 2010 01:49:32 +0000

What a whiner. Stop yer belly-aching and buy yerself a Mac, and buy me one while yer at it.

sdeming [Member] in response to: Linux .. Windows .. Linux .. Ugh

sdeming [Member] — Sun, 10 Jan 2010 16:06:07 +0000

Hey Jon!

I can't stand cygwin so I typically like to run a full blown Linux in a VM. Right now I'm running Ubuntu Server 9.10 and it's quite nice. No X crap to deal with, just ssh into the VM and start hacking.

I've settled on this:

* Ruby development in Windows using RubyMine (jruby 1.4).
* C++ development (for fun) in Ubuntu Server 9.10 via VM + ssh.

It works quite well so far. With Ubuntu Server 9.10 I can get away with 512MB RAM allocated leaving the other 3.5GB available to Windows. It's been a strange experience writing Ruby code in Windows but it works better than I ever expected and RubyMine runs really well on Windows and really crappy on Linux. The trade-offs are nuts.

Though I really miss my mac. The funniest thing about using the mac though was that I was primarily doing C# dev at the time. So I had to run VMWare Fusion + Windows XP + VS.NET 2008. Life can be such a pain.

Jon [Visitor] in response to: Linux .. Windows .. Linux .. Ugh

Jon [Visitor] — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 15:05:04 +0000

PuttyCyg on Windows ( http://code.google.com/p/puttycyg/ ) cuts it pretty well for me, I spend most of my day on OS X 10.6 running VM's (win7 and cent) since our codebase is both VS2k5 and GCC based. The "/cygdrive/g/path/on/your/g/drive" syntax is pretty reasonable ... and, well, it has bash underneath.

Out of curiosity, what aspects get in your way on the cygwin approach?

-jon (who needs to update your RSS feed url)