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I'll sell my brain to buy some... It's useless anyway .

Inf0Byt3 wrote:I must recompile the kernel to use VmWare ? That's pretty uncool...

As a developer you should have build-essential anyway. Besides it does it for you if I recall. Download the 30 day trial and the install comes with a perl script - just run it and answer some simple questions.

Well as I wrote on different posts I use Linux 90% of the time so PureWinLin is not an issue and yeah I know it, I also tried to convert it for vmware which worked thanks to thje qemu image tools however I can't get the x-server to work, I managed to run purebasic on purewinlin in vmware over a remote x session though which is pritty fast but hard to set up

Inf0Byt3 wrote:What about if I want to make open source software in PB? Nobody would include it in any disto because the compiler isn't free . Any solution?

Yes, create your own distro. You can base it on an existing one and just add what you want to add.

A distro? That would be cool ...

Hehe, a pb distro. All the config dialogs and such written in pb..

Inf0Byt3 wrote:A distro? That would be cool ...

http://www.linuxfromscratch.org

I could try that, but later on, i have only 7 months of programming for now . Gotta learn some stuff first.

dagcrack wrote:Hehe From my side, It's either MAC for gfx design and video processing, windows for gamedev or linux for networking.... So I'm happy with all of them, and most of the times with Windows itself.

Thats about the same here as well. I've always used mac for video processing or any kind of graphics (until photoshop & premier went over to the pc, .. ergh!)

Windows is great for gamedev, but now that PB4 for the osx is coming out in the near future .... who will need windows then for game dev? As for linux for networking, I've only been using the PureWinLin thanks to Beach.

Then again, I'm heading in the other direction, pure OSX, and looking for a way to run WinXP (and soon Vista) through vmware or some such on an OSX.

Inf0Byt3 wrote:Just formatted my harddisk and installed Linux . Forever...

Same here! I'm running SuSE 10.1 with xgl / compiz now. I'll never come back...

FloHimself wrote:

Inf0Byt3 wrote:Just formatted my harddisk and installed Linux . Forever...

Same here! I'm running SuSE 10.1 with xgl / compiz now. I'll never come back...

All 'switchers' are hobby programmers
(Ok that's a bad joke...but look at your work and you will see Bill again)

Unfortunately that's true... But the day when I'll be free again approaches very very fast .

IceSoft wrote:All 'switchers' are hobby programmers
(Ok that's a bad joke...but look at your work and you will see Bill again)

Inf0Byt3 wrote: Unfortunately that's true...

That's not true in general. I still earn my money with coding. Just the main platform is different. It has opened the door to whole new customers. In contrast to many OS fanatics out there, i don't dislike Windows / Bill just because I've chosen Linux. For most of my projects the OS just doesn't matter at all, although it's easier (for me) to develop a piece of software on linux and create a version for running on Windows & OSX, than the other way around.

Maybe that's not the case for the average employed coder.

No, Flo, don't get me wrong... I was talking about this migration thing. It's true that I came back to win, but for a short time and just because I broke my linux installation. How could I say that all the linux users are hobbysts ?

You really can't breaka linux install short of rm'ing everything. You shoulda posted here and gotten some help =)