Comments on: Mac v Linux http://leuksman.com/log/2007/10/01/mac-v-linux/ reticula, electronica, & oddities Tue, 06 Jan 2009 13:19:08 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7 hourly 1 By: Andrew http://leuksman.com/log/2007/10/01/mac-v-linux/comment-page-1/#comment-3825 Andrew Wed, 10 Oct 2007 01:33:28 +0000 http://leuksman.com/log/2007/10/01/mac-v-linux/#comment-3825 Thought about using my web-based IDE for development? It's got everything you mention, minus regex search/replace (which is on my todo list). A bit alpha, but it does the trick with my development (MediaWiki stuff). As a bonus, it's got some nifty collaborative stuff, like "Publish this diff", so you can show people your changes in nice wikimedia-style formatted diff pages. Thought about using my web-based IDE for development? It’s got everything you mention, minus regex search/replace (which is on my todo list). A bit alpha, but it does the trick with my development (MediaWiki stuff). As a bonus, it’s got some nifty collaborative stuff, like “Publish this diff”, so you can show people your changes in nice wikimedia-style formatted diff pages.

]]> By: Milos Rancic http://leuksman.com/log/2007/10/01/mac-v-linux/comment-page-1/#comment-3557 Milos Rancic Wed, 03 Oct 2007 10:14:22 +0000 http://leuksman.com/log/2007/10/01/mac-v-linux/#comment-3557 Google Earth is working fine on my Debian. Google Earth is working fine on my Debian.

]]> By: brion http://leuksman.com/log/2007/10/01/mac-v-linux/comment-page-1/#comment-3507 brion Mon, 01 Oct 2007 22:49:34 +0000 http://leuksman.com/log/2007/10/01/mac-v-linux/#comment-3507 I've used both Gnome and KDE on and off over the years but generally found KDE to be kind of... overload. ;) Gnome apps usually stay out of my way. Definitely worth giving the latest release a try, though. joe is definitely my favorite console editor. :) Tried kate on and off, I probably just need to sit down and use it for work for a few days to get used to it. I’ve used both Gnome and KDE on and off over the years but generally found KDE to be kind of… overload. ;) Gnome apps usually stay out of my way. Definitely worth giving the latest release a try, though.

joe is definitely my favorite console editor. :) Tried kate on and off, I probably just need to sit down and use it for work for a few days to get used to it.

]]> By: Erik Möller http://leuksman.com/log/2007/10/01/mac-v-linux/comment-page-1/#comment-3506 Erik Möller Mon, 01 Oct 2007 21:41:41 +0000 http://leuksman.com/log/2007/10/01/mac-v-linux/#comment-3506 KDE has a bit of an undeserved reputation as a "Windows clone", but really, once you get over the initial UI configuration, it's quite powerful stuff. Give Kubuntu a try, there's a few KDE apps that you're not considering right now, e.g: - Katapult, built-in quicksilver like launcher - Digikam, fairly decent photo management - akregator, excellent RSS reader. Can't live without it. - Kate, decent GUI text editor with all the features you describe (open and save files via SSH using the fish:// KIO stack that works throughout all KDE applications). I use joe on the console to avoid the nightmares of vi and emacs. - Basket, notes management similar to Tomboy (I don't know that Jimbo thing) - Amarok, decent media manager & player with last.fm support I have no problems running Google Earth, but it does require 3D acceleration. And yes, X server configuration is still horrible much of the time, but it's getting better (compared to when you had to spend days to just get the fonts to display well). It took the project some time to recover from incompetent management during the XFree86 days.. There's a bunch of other KDE apps that match your needs that may be worth trying as well, though I personally use a mix of KDE, GNOME, console & web-based apps. I'm not really happy yet with any presentation tool (MagicPoint came the closest as a fairly cool scripting language, but it doesn't seem to be very actively developed), but I have yet to try beefing up presentations with Compiz .. Michael Dale did that at Wikimania and it was pretty neat. KDE has a bit of an undeserved reputation as a “Windows clone”, but really, once you get over the initial UI configuration, it’s quite powerful stuff. Give Kubuntu a try, there’s a few KDE apps that you’re not considering right now, e.g:

- Katapult, built-in quicksilver like launcher

- Digikam, fairly decent photo management

- akregator, excellent RSS reader. Can’t live without it.

- Kate, decent GUI text editor with all the features you describe (open and save files via SSH using the fish:// KIO stack that works throughout all KDE applications). I use joe on the console to avoid the nightmares of vi and emacs.

- Basket, notes management similar to Tomboy (I don’t know that Jimbo thing)

- Amarok, decent media manager & player with last.fm support

I have no problems running Google Earth, but it does require 3D acceleration. And yes, X server configuration is still horrible much of the time, but it’s getting better (compared to when you had to spend days to just get the fonts to display well). It took the project some time to recover from incompetent management during the XFree86 days..

There’s a bunch of other KDE apps that match your needs that may be worth trying as well, though I personally use a mix of KDE, GNOME, console & web-based apps. I’m not really happy yet with any presentation tool (MagicPoint came the closest as a fairly cool scripting language, but it doesn’t seem to be very actively developed), but I have yet to try beefing up presentations with Compiz .. Michael Dale did that at Wikimania and it was pretty neat.

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