Alan Salewski

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Originally posted by John Holme:
... but I continue to use a text editor for my coding. could you please discuss the advantages/disadvantages of any IDEs with which you are familiar?
thanks,
John Holme


I have used oracle's jdeveloper a bit. Among two million other things (most of which I don't use) it has a built-in proxy server that allows you to easily watch network traffic; this can be invaluable when tracking down SOAP interop problems and you want to see exactly what the protocol conversation looks like. I've used other, similar tools, but the one in jdeveloper seems more polished to me.
On the whole, however, I find GNU Emacs (with JDE, camelCase-mode, and a boatload of other tweaks) to be the tool of choice for coding, debugging, and browsing through code. It's also the only editor I know of that will allow me to edit a file locally and transparently save it, check it into CVS, etc, across the net (tunnelling through multiple hosts over ssh via TRAMP). Since I edit files in lots of languages, it has the benefit of providing a consistent environment for coding C, Perl, and Java. Another cool feature is that you can get a command shell within an editor window (any system shell, or the eshell built into emacs) which is very handy once you train your hands to know the keystrokes for jumping back and forth between windows.
Emacs used to have a reputation of being bloated and slow, but compared with today's IDE's it's fast and its size quite reasonable.
AFAIK, there isn't any GUI design capability in emacs (though such a thing could be added). I've heard of people using eclipse in conjunction with emac s, which may be a way to get the best of both worlds.
20 years ago

Originally posted by Ernest Friedman-Hill:

I downloaded the 3 ISOs for Mandrake 9.2, and tried to install them on an unused machine (dual Athlon 1800+). The installer would crash a short way into booting the Linux kernel. I tried every one of the alternate installs, and I tried the mem=XXXX kernel param, too. RedHat (7.3, 8.0. 9.0) and Fedora Core 1 all install fine on this machine.
It turns out that I have a bunch of customers who have those Athlon machines (good cost/benefit ratio when they were purchased about 2 years ago) and I need to pick a new OS for them, so it's not looking like Mandrake is an option. Web searches for dual Athlon install problems have turned up nothing. Anybody know anything?



I've been running Debian on a dual Athlon 1800+ box without any problems for nearly two years.
20 years ago