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SGI releases "Jessie" to the Open Source
SGI has released "Jessie" to the Open Source World. Jessie is an IDE for use on top of current development tools in the Linux OS. Here is a screenshot of Jessie. Note: The page is a bit outdated (it doesn't mention that there are some IDE for Linux such as CodeWarrior of CodeFusion). Thanks for Linux Today for the story.
The best fonts in the Unix world are, unsurprisingly, on SGI machines. You can pick up a used Indigo2 for pretty cheap nowadays, and use it as a front-end for your Linux systems. That's what I did, and I'm happy as a clam.
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I just wish people wouldn't keep on using Helvetica on their web pages - that's the only bad SGI font
The Enlightenment window manager comes with some nice readable fonts - you might want to try that too.
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My document on buying a used SGI machine:
http://www.amazing.com/internet/old-sgi-faq.htm
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Ahhh, but to use the arrow, page up, page down, and home, end buttons, you have to move your hand from the letters...
There is reason to everything in EMACS; take the time to learn it. You'll soon understand why the investment in time is so worth it... Learn EMACS LISP... Use C-s, C-r to jump the cursor to wherever you want to be... Use the kill buffer...
It reminds me of something I read in Usenet once: "Format Windows. Install Linux. Do not be afraid, All Shall Be Revealed."
Personally, I'm trying to figure out how to make it so that EMACS can extend to every textbox, textarea, etc., etc.,...
You'll find that EMACS keys are built into a lot of applications. (I am speaking of C-a, C-e, C-n, C-p, C-b, C-f).
Lion Kimbro: http://home.sprynet.com/~snowlion/
Hmmn, I'm a bit surprised at the complaints from the people in this forum. Where's the spirit of free software? Instead of saying things like, "this is just a front end to gdb", or it lacks "X widget" and "Y widget", we should be saying to ourselves, "Wow, this is a great idea, I wish it had this feature, so I'm going to try and code it and submit a patch!" Then someone else contributes another patch, and soon we've got a super IDE.
I mean, isn't that how Linux happened? Isn't that the spirit of free software. If you're going to post something like, "Why doesn't Jessie have this feature" replace the word Jessie with "Linux Kernel" and you probably won't be wanting to post that message, but you'll want to get coding!
Thanks for the free software gift SGI, much appreciated. Looking forward to the release of XFS
From http://oss.sgi.com/projects/jessie/li cense.html:
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3.Termination. This License and the rights granted hereunder will terminate automatically if Recipient fails to comply with terms herein and fails to cure such breach within 30 days of the breach.
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Sure doesn't look like the GPL or even a DFSG-compliant license.
I can't get through to the FTP site, so I don't know if it says differently there.
there is a serious gap in the linux development
thats IDE
yes you can moan on about emacs and vi
and yes I use them
lets think project managment if you have ever been on a large project it is impossible to co-ordinate everybody without cutting down a small forest !
this was solved by useing tools
yes debuggers help and if anyone says they dont they have never written a large project in a small time frame !
IDE help they take some of the pain out of useing lots of differant tools that dont play well togther in the same sandpit
what we (linux) needs is project management tools and before anyone moans that they dont work everything can be abused hell I can write bad cobol, bad java, bad c and bad C++ (not to hard) but I dont because I know the conventions and their limertations when working with Booch or UML you have to know their flaws (UML has lots) but they ARE useful
SGI has tryed to address what they see as a gap WELL DONE SGI
whats more they have made it look the same under GNOME and KDE (although the screen shot is GNOME)
thank you
(for reading what is my most sensible post)
john jones
a poor student @ bournemouth uni in the UK (a deltic so please dont moan about spelling but the content)
Now if they would just release the source code for their window manager, that would make me happy.
I keep an old indigo(irix 5.3) on my desk and find that I use it mostly for an xterm and management station.
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Very good stuff. Looks much better than the simple screenshot from SGI.
Check out the "How To Contribute" section to find out how to get involved.
> of course there probably is already elisp out there that does this...
/source/of/project -type f | grep \.[cCh]+p*$`
Of course there is. It's called etags. You run the program like this:
etags `find
You unfortunately have to do this for each directory, though i suspect that you can define things out to use just one etags file. Then you just hit meta-. when the cursor is over a struct, variable, function, etc. and it brings you right to the definition, opening up all necessary files. Add in hooks to saving files in cc-mode, and you can auto-update your tags file when you save. I do this and it's so fast I don't even notice it happening (Admittedly, I'm on a 633 MHz Alpha, but even so, it is fast in and of itself). I highly recommend it. That and building with make in your xemacs window so that you can just middle click on a compile error and be brought to it, and you've got a large part of an IDE right there.
Remember the Mantra: "Emacs can do everything."
They laughed at Einstein. They laughed at the Wright Brothers. But they also laughed at Bozo the Clown. -- C. Sagan