Comments on: Linux Re-revisited

By: Joshua Flanagan

Joshua Flanagan — Tue, 13 Jul 2010 16:40:26 +0000

@Scott – thanks for the suggestions. I intentionally did not want to fall back on a notepad-like crutch, so that I would be forced to learn vim. It has worked out well, and I feel fairly comfortable now – I’m getting what all the fuss is about.

By: Scott Koon

Scott Koon — Tue, 13 Jul 2010 15:59:15 +0000

In the meantime while you get up to speed with Vim, you can try using Pico, for CLI text editing, or GEdit, for graphical editing. They are more Notepad like.

By: Joshua Flanagan

Joshua Flanagan — Mon, 12 Jul 2010 13:48:59 +0000

@John – Glad I could make you smile. I certainly did not intend to make it seem like a magical OS – just a refreshing change from what I’ve been working with. But I don’t think we need to host a “which linux distro is the best” discussion here – I think they’ve played out a couple times already somewhere on the internet.

By: John Uler

John Uler — Mon, 12 Jul 2010 12:50:37 +0000

Sorry but such posts makes me smile. This is typical “I just heard that linux exist but I don’t know nothing about it” post.
I agree that linux is better alternative but definitelly not for everyone. When you discover that Ubuntu is rather poor os among other linux distributions do not forget to write another post.
IMO: Do not be fooled, Ubuntu is not pure magic.

By: David Martines

David Martines — Tue, 06 Jul 2010 22:13:28 +0000

Coincidentally, I pretty much did the same thing (via wubi) a couple months ago, for the same reasons, and with the about the same results. Have fun and let us know how it goes….

By: Jake Scott

Jake Scott — Mon, 05 Jul 2010 22:45:09 +0000

Yeah I just got up and running on node.js tutorials too there are some good ones here

http://howtonode.org/express-mongodb
http://howtonode.org/volcano-wheat

By: Joshua Flanagan

Joshua Flanagan — Mon, 05 Jul 2010 14:12:00 +0000

@Rob – good point, I had forgotten my RubyGems troubles. I ended up adding the gem bin path to my PATH environment – haven’t had an issue since. Any other problems with the distribution ruby I should be aware of?

By: Erik

Erik — Mon, 05 Jul 2010 10:39:49 +0000

I hear you, gone through the same curve on my home machine..

The only thing I haven’t found an equivalent is as you noted Windows Live Writer..

By: Marc

Marc — Mon, 05 Jul 2010 09:06:13 +0000

For vim, I just included this in my startup settings:

source $VIMRUNTIME/mswin.vim

. . . and I can use normal windows editor stuffs inside vim (ctrl+c, ctrl+v, shift for select, etc)

. . . and setting up ruby is easy, I just followed these:

http://www.hackido.com/2009/11/install-ruby-on-rails-on-ubuntu-karmic.html

By: Rob

Rob — Mon, 05 Jul 2010 08:26:45 +0000

Ubuntu is great for development. I too use VM’s for any Windows stuff, but can happily write Ruby in Ubuntu.

Git, Subversion and Mercurial are all in the standard enabled repo’s too.

It’s worth noting that installing Ruby from the repo’s is a bit crap. Mainly when you come to installing gems, as they get placed somewhere different from where Ruby is looking. So it’s either a case of playing around with environment paths, or like in my case, just compile and install it from source rather than the repo’s. I’ve got a script now that does it for me, http://bit.ly/clVQJ3.