RE: tlug: Hello, I'm a newbie and help!

["Jonathan Byrne--3Web" <jq@example.com>]

-----Original Message-----
差出人 : Gavin Walker <gwalker@example.com>


>Basic question: Am I in for a world of pain, or will the task be easy?
>Any pre-install hints would be much appreciated.

Welcome to the TLUG list, Gavin.  As anyone who reads this list knows, I
usually have an opinion about everything, so this is no exception :-)  Hint
number one: Red Hat 4.2, while not unserviceable, is F-U-R-U-I "old" :-)
The shortest route to Linux happiness, IMO, is to get Pacific HiTech's
TurboLinux.  The setup is as user-friendly and easy to install as you could
possibly ask for.  Also, version 2.0 will be coming out in (I think) 4 - 6
weeks.  I just got the 2.0 beta 2 CD in the mail today.  The current release
versions are 1.2 (English) and 1.4 (Japanese).  I recommend the J version,
unless you have no interest in reading or writing anything at all in
Japanese.  And I can tell you, the version 2.0 release that's coming up will
not you out.  In some areas it's actually already *easier* to configure than
some things on MacOS or Windows and it's only going to get better.  OK, I
sound like a commercial :-)  But to continue the commercial, I'm a former
Red Hat 5.0 user who would never switch back from TurboLinux.

<Note to Scott Stone: is there any way for him to get into 1.2/1.4 in one
nice painless shot, or will he need to install 1.0 and the upgrade CD?>

>After the installation I'll be wanting to write some code. I'm guessing
>that the easy to use development environments like VB and VC++ aren't
>going to be available for Linux. Am I back in my University days with a
>text editor and command line, or are there less labour intensive
>solutions? Also, any recommended books?


Emacs/Mule will work OK as an editor.  There is a GUI frontend available for
the gdb debugger, and probably some other stuff as well.  I'll get back to
you on that (e-mail me if I forget).  Recommended books: Running Linux.
Also, I've heard that Beginning Linux Programming (for those new to Linux,
not beginning programmers) is supposed to be good.  Get some second opinions
on that from other people, though, since I'm just a beginning programmer and
haven't actually used it myself.

Cheers,

Jonathan

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