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Resources For Windows Developers Moving To Unix?

Posted by Cliff on from the learning-a-new-system dept.

abh asks: "I can't be the only one out there who has a background programming under Windows, primarily using Microsoft's Visual Studio. I'm a Linux enthusiast who is looking for information (books? Web sites?) on developing using the GNU tools. Since most of my experience is with a visual design environment, are there similar environments available Linux?"

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  1. Well... by PimpBot · · Score: 2

    IDEs like KDevelop and KDE Studioare remarkably like Visual Studio. Whenever I've used both, they've always seemed (mostly) feature complete and stable. There are other IDEs out there, but from my expierence, these are the most mature ones out there. (and, imho, Emacs doesn't count as in IDE)

    And now, I have a question for you (or anyone else out there): Are there any good books/materials for learning Win32 or Carbon/Coco/etc programming? I'm a pretty good programmer, but I don't want to be tied to Unix/POSIX forever ;-)
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  2. Freshmeat IDE index by gruppa · · Score: 2

    Freshmeat has a development environment section:
    http://freshmeat.net/appindex/development/environm ents.html

    Here you will find Code Crusader, a CodeWarrier look-alike. Never used it, but there are some favourable comments on freshmeat.

    1. Re:Freshmeat IDE index by paRcat · · Score: 2

      Not that I'm anybody, but code crusader is wonderful.. It's just about all I use when I'm not at the CLI.



  3. Books and documents by hooha · · Score: 2

    For non-GUI, UNIX specific programming details, I've found the following to be very useful:

    • UNIX System Programming by Haviland, Gray, Salama. Published by Addison Wesley.
    • Advanced Programming in the UNIX Environment by W. Richard Stevens. Published by Addison Wesley.
    • UNIX Network Programming (volumes I and II) by W. Richard Stevens. Published by Prentice Hall.
    • Documents from http://www.unix-systems.org/ (The Open Group).
  4. Re:Why? by DaveHowe · · Score: 2
    Did someone come along and make it illegal to sell Linux software when I wasn't looking?

    Oracle must be upset...
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    -=DaveHowe=-
  5. Re:Why? by po_boy · · Score: 2
    Why should we want to migrate from windows development to Linux when we doesn't get paid for our work?

    Because it will improve your grammer, especially your subject/verb agreement problem.

  6. komodo by po_boy · · Score: 2
    As for an IDE, activestate (the makers of a good version of PERL for windows) is building an IDE called komodo. It's supposed to run on windows and linux and be useful for PERL, Python, and Javascript.

    This might help you if you switch back and forth as you get more used to linux. I don't think it's very mature on linux yet, but it may be worth keeping an eye on.