It was worth it

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11-14-2009, 09:18 AM
W1GUH

It was worth it

After a good night's sleep, today I'm having a ball with linux. It's a real pleasure not to have to swap an internal disk, and instead of the intense stuff of getting it right, today I can just play! Thanks for all the help.

One thing that stands out as a major finding, is that Super Grub. What it does for me is gives me a grub to boot from CD, therefore eliminating the need to have it on a hard disk. I suppose that an expert could get it right on the internal drive...but, being a novice at this...that's much safer. I think it does more than that, but I haven't explored all that yet.

Linux rules!!! Guess, tho', now I'm going to have to re-learn Java, but I guess that's not really a bad thing. Unless one of you know a better way to program gui's.

Thanks for indulging my rants yesterday!
11-14-2009, 02:08 PM
n2ize

Re: It was worth it

There are lots and lots of ways to program GUI's on Linux without using Java. you can use the Gnome or KDE api's. You can also use C, C++, Lisp, Perl, Python, or just about any other language which can be bound to a GUI API.

I mostly use C++ with Qt. You can download a free full featured edition of Qt for Linux here.

http://qt.nokia.com/

Qt usually comes distributed with Fedora and probably with Ubuntu if you install the appropriate development packages. You can probably install it using yum, apt-get, or whatever package manager Ubuntu uses.
11-14-2009, 04:01 PM
W1GUH

Re: It was worth it

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Originally Posted by n2ize

There are lots and lots of ways to program GUI's on Linux without using Java. you can use the Gnome or KDE api's. You can also use C, C++, Lisp, Perl, Python, or just about any other language which can be bound to a GUI API.

I mostly use C++ with Qt. You can download a free full featured edition of Qt for Linux here.

http://qt.nokia.com/

Qt usually comes distributed with Fedora and probably with Ubuntu if you install the appropriate development packages. You can probably install it using yum, apt-get, or whatever package manager Ubuntu uses.

Thanks, that sounds really good, and I kinda suspected that there were good packages.