[_] What dev env for XP
AndrewGill73@gmail.com
andrewgill73 at gmail.com
Tue Jun 3 13:53:21 BST 2008
Andrew, You could try Wubi... it allows you to install and uninstall Ubuntu as any other Windows application, in a simple and safe way (http://wubi-installer.org/). cheers, Andy On Tue, Jun 3, 2008 at 1:47 PM, Andy Davies <dajdavies at gmail.com> wrote: > 2008/6/3 Andrew McGregor <andy at txm.net>: >> Morning. >> >> I'm on a XP desktop - which is fine as I have been writing specs with >> Word that has changed a little since Word 2. >> >> But soon I expect I'll have to do some development. What can I do to >> my weenie windows box to make it dev friendly (for Linux servers)? >> >> I've got cygwin so I can happily grep away, a power tool to preview >> the window when alt-tab'ing. I'm downloading and have promised myself >> to give Eclipse/PDT a 'fair chance'. >> >> What is flavour of the month for text editing? What else can I do to >> make this desktop less painfull? >> > > Install VMWare Player and then a Linux distro within it? > > Andy > > -- > underscore_ list info/archive -> http://www.under-score.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/underscore > -- Kind regards, Andrew Gill 07880 730096