Which is the best distro of Linux?

PB&J Lover · Post by **PB&J Lover** » Sun Aug 20, 2006 6:35 am

I'm now trying Kubuntu, which is KDE. I like it. Perhaps it is a good place to start. I took a test online and they came up with 4 I should try.

Xandros was too resource heavy (according to them) and was not a good choice for a laptop.

Their other choices:

Madriva
Ubuntu
OpenSuse

Will Kubuntu run PureBasic?

ts-soft · Post by **ts-soft** » Sun Aug 20, 2006 6:58 am

>> Will Kubuntu run PureBasic?
Yes, purebasic run on all (x/k)ubuntu without problems. See the tip from Beach for install required libs.

Trond · Post by **Trond** » Sun Aug 20, 2006 11:47 am

ts-soft wrote:>> Will Kubuntu run PureBasic?
Yes, purebasic run on all (x/k)ubuntu without problems. See the tip from Beach for install required libs.

That's not true. The GTk 2 IDE doesn't work and the GTk 1 IDE is very buggy.

walker · Post by **walker** » Sun Aug 20, 2006 1:58 pm

Trond wrote:
ts-soft wrote:>> Will Kubuntu run PureBasic?
Yes, purebasic run on all (x/k)ubuntu without problems. See the tip from Beach for install required libs.
That's not true. The GTk 2 IDE doesn't work and the GTk 1 IDE is very buggy.

I guess, that was not the question... the issue with the GTK2-IDE is discussed several times... it will work on machines with GTK-Libs 2.4 (maybe on 2.6 too) but not with the actual GTK-Version... The "buggy" ide (gtk1) is buggy on every distro....

So far the statement "PB runs on all (X/K)Ubuntu" is correct as this is not a statement about the errors PB still have in 3.94.... and with V4.0 all this issues might be gone.....

Trond · Post by **Trond** » Sun Aug 20, 2006 3:08 pm

walker wrote:So far the statement "PB runs on all (X/K)Ubuntu" is correct

Yes, but not the "without problems" part.

ts-soft · Post by **ts-soft** » Sun Aug 20, 2006 6:07 pm

Purebasic is the programming language. The progamming language run
without problems (only colorrequester doesn't work).
In ubuntu all required libs avalaible. Opensuse for example has no gtk1-dev.

andreyu · Post by **andreyu** » Sun Oct 15, 2006 11:22 am

Personally i use Gentoo Linux. I try to use before RedHat, SUSE, Ubuntu, Kubuntu. And now my choice is Gentoo.
As editor i use Kate - KDE integrated multilingual editor.

thamarok · Post by **thamarok** » Sun Oct 15, 2006 12:29 pm

andreyu wrote:Personally i use Gentoo Linux. I try to use before RedHat, SUSE, Ubuntu, Kubuntu. And now my choice is Gentoo.
As editor i use Kate - KDE integrated multilingual editor.

Kate is the best free editor you can get there for Linux!
I use Kate to do my coding in PB, looks better than the PB IDE

andreyu · Post by **andreyu** » Sun Oct 15, 2006 1:08 pm

thamarok wrote:
andreyu wrote:Personally i use Gentoo Linux. I try to use before RedHat, SUSE, Ubuntu, Kubuntu. And now my choice is Gentoo.
As editor i use Kate - KDE integrated multilingual editor.
Kate is the best free editor you can get there for Linux!
I use Kate to do my coding in PB, looks better than the PB IDE

I think same too. I use Kate for php, perl also. But for c/c++ i use VIM.

thamarok · Post by **thamarok** » Sun Oct 15, 2006 1:17 pm

andreyu wrote:
thamarok wrote:
andreyu wrote:Personally i use Gentoo Linux. I try to use before RedHat, SUSE, Ubuntu, Kubuntu. And now my choice is Gentoo.
As editor i use Kate - KDE integrated multilingual editor.
Kate is the best free editor you can get there for Linux!
I use Kate to do my coding in PB, looks better than the PB IDE
I think same too. I use Kate for php, perl also. But for c/c++ i use VIM.

Mos of the time, I am using Konsole (X Terminal Emulator) and nano does its jobe quite well

I have been thinking of doing a similar application in PureBasic, but I don't know how to do it..

Nik · Post by **Nik** » Sun Oct 15, 2006 1:26 pm

When you want to do something like nano, have a look at ncurses (google for it), There is no wrapper for PB yet though but when 4.0 comes this shouldn't be a problem since we will ahve import^^

thamarok · Post by **thamarok** » Sun Oct 15, 2006 1:29 pm

I know about ncurses and all that stuff. I managed to make a terminal program with a menu in fasm, but the string management was so hard, that I gave up

Nik · Post by **Nik** » Sun Oct 15, 2006 1:48 pm

Why not use C ? It should be much easier than with FASM, Or C++, then you also could wait for version 4

thamarok · Post by **thamarok** » Sun Oct 15, 2006 2:39 pm

Nik wrote:Why not use C ? It should be much easier than with FASM, Or C++, then you also could wait for version 4

I am already doing stuff in the PureBasic 4 Linux alpha release and it's stable enough for a small application, but still waiting for the beta and hopefully it is more stable.

About C, I have used Pelles C in windows and the fact that I hate C or whatever bloated++ is very high.

ASM looks better than C, so I think I'll stick with FASM and I found a String management in ASM guide which should help me a lot.

Thanks anyway

andreyu · Post by **andreyu** » Sun Oct 15, 2006 4:14 pm

thamarok wrote:I am already doing stuff in the PureBasic 4 Linux alpha release and it's stable enough for a small application, but still waiting for the beta and hopefully it is more stable.

Where you download PureBasic 4 for Linux? I check members download area now, but nothing about version 4.