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Pastimes : Linux OS.: Technical questions -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Charles Hughes who wrote (159)	1/14/1999 5:18:00 PM
From: Judd	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 484

>Is there such a thing as a HOWTO organizer/reader, or should I just use cat to read things. ----------------------------------------- < Use more, or less ;) >For programming X under Linux, what is the best IDE/GUI type C++ tool, and can I keep the libraries on CD, as my space is limited on my laptop? ----------------------------------------- < RHIDE is the only one I know of. I've never used it though. Try searching on freshmeat. >Does anyone know of a Linux that can be booted from CDROM rather than installed to hard disk? If so, how important is your computer BIOS to that? ------------------------------ < Slackware can run off of the CDROM, but I've never tried it. >TIA, < YWIA (you're welcome in advance), Judd

To: Charles Hughes who wrote (159)	1/14/1999 5:25:00 PM
From: Mitch Blevins	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 484

One at a time: Is there such a thing as a HOWTO organizer/reader, or should I just use cat to read things Most of the HOWTOs are gzipped. You can use zless to read them from the command line. But Netscape also makes a decent browser/reader. It understands .gz extensions and will uncompress them in place. Just point your browser at /usr/doc/HOWTO For programming X under Linux, what is the best IDE/GUI type C++ tool, and can I keep the libraries on CD, as my space is minited on my laptop? David Cook keeps an excellent page of development environments. kernel-panic.com Although I like the {vim\|emacs}/gcc/make combo as a good envirnoment. Also, the gnome project has a promising-looking one in development, but I haven't tried it. (www.gnome.org) Grasp (on David's page) is kind of neat (but limited). Sorry for the stupid questions, but I am more of a Sun/SCO guy where unix is concerned, and a little spoiled by Windows and Mac as well. I was spoiled with VC++ for years before trying GNU/Linux. It was quite a culture shock. Does anyone know of a Linux that can be booted from CDROM rather than installed to hard disk? If so, how important is your computer BIOS to that? Most distribution have install disks that will boot Linux (just for the purpose of the install) if your bios supports it... so it _can_ be done. The problem is that if you want to do anything useful, you will need at least some writable filesystem. You solve this by creating a RAMdisk in memory to run the writable parts of the fs. Look to the Trinux distro (http://www.trinux.org) for hints, as they do this same thing, but with floppies. -Mitch

To: Charles Hughes who wrote (159)	1/14/1999 8:32:00 PM
From: E. Charters	Respond to of 484

Programming X. Motif Toolkits Xlib Athena Widgets Tcl/Tk GTK tools. Gimp tools --------------------

To: Charles Hughes who wrote (159)	1/14/1999 8:39:00 PM
From: E. Charters	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 484

Actually as ancient as it is Yggdrasil can be booted from CD and run off the CD transparently. It has some neat advantages for developing kernel changes if you are a real hacker.. But it IS sorely out of date in many ways.. one of the first distributions with ELF binaries... I used to run a hybrid Slackware 96 and Yggie combo but found too many conflict bugs.. the GUI would come up part Ygg and part Slack... the better interface was Slack I finally decided.. EC<:-}