[CoLoCo] Linux - Oh how I missed you.

[Andrew Barilla]

1 - I've been sticking with 32bit.  My laptop only has 3GB of RAM so there's
no real advantage to 64bit for me.  The only speed advantage I ever noticed
was with things such as video encoding.

2 - What's an IDE?  vi all the way.  Although if you want to go with gedit,
there's plenty of add-ons to make it perty.

3 - I'm very disappointed by all the music players available in Linux.
Banshee or Rhythmbox are good enough though.

On Mon, Jan 17, 2011 at 10:07 PM, David Overcash
<funnylookinhat at gmail.com>wrote:

> Ok - So I've been using Ubuntu and Linux with all of my servers for work
> for a LONG time now, and used to run it as my Desktop OS as well... but for
> a long series of reasons (ok - two... Flash & Games) I ditched it and ran to
> the land of Apple.  Bad decision - I know.  Before long I was stuck with a
> Macbook because I needed to write iPhone applications for work.  Ok ok -
> Flash forward to... 2 weeks ago!
>
> I purchased a new IBM Thinkpad and intend to put Ubuntu on it!  It's
> arriving any day now, and I'm more than excited to finally be coming full
> circle with my misguided journey.  However - I've been out of the desktop
> loop for quite some time - so I have a few questions.
>
> 1 - 32 or 64 Bit?  Keep in mind I need Flash - and would prefer to be able
> to watch Hulu and whatnot...  last I heard the 64-Bit Adobe Flash didn't
> work with several online video players.  Also - I plan on running WINE to
> play World of Warcraft - will trying to run everything in 64-Bit be a total
> pain?
>
> 2 - IDEs & Editors - My job is 70% programming, so I spend a ton of time
> writing PHP, HTML, CSS, and Javascript - with a bunch of other time spent on
> Android applications.  I know that Eclipse is the way to go for Android -
> but what would you suggest for working on web servers for code?  I prefer to
> work directly on the server (through SSH) as we don't have any repositories
> of any sort setup.
>
> 3 - Music Players - What's the best?  I spend most of my day listening to
> mp3 streams of Japanese Radio ( http://japanaradio.com if you're curious )
> - but also have a ton of mp3 files.  Is Banshee still a good option?  What
> else is good?
>
> Ok - That's all... thanks guys!
>
> Cheers,
> David
>
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