Common problems with Ubuntu

[Orna Agmon Ben-Yehuda]

Hi Oleg

When trying to use my Ubuntu for development, I ran into dependency
troubles. I needed Eclipse, I had to manually install several java-related
packages, the java compilers clashed (something by IBM came with eclipse, it
was unable to compile the library I needed to hack (lucene) with it, but I
could not get rid of the things eclipse brought with it. I ended up
compiling only a part of Lucene, giving up on the webserver testing part,
giving up even attempting to use the benefit of Eclipse for java (back to
good old emacs).

I am not sure Valgrind was installed by default. I do not recall any update
offered for devel tools, but I do recall many security updates and many
firefox updates.

Orna

On Tue, May 11, 2010 at 1:46 PM, Oleg Goldshmidt <pub at goldshmidt.org> wrote:

> I am not an Ubuntu user, but this thread seems to me a good
> opportunity to find out on the cheap whether certain preconceptions
> have a reason.
>
> Somehow I got an idea in my head (marketing must work, probably in
> mysterious ways) that Ubuntu is a distro explicitly designed for every
> non-techie Tom, Dick, and Harry and their respective housewives, and
> the point is to dispel the impression that "Linux is for geeks". This
> may be correct or not.
>
> If this is the case, and given that the OP is trying to choose a
> platform for developers, can anyone say anything regarding Ubuntu's
> quality as a *development* platform? Is it just the same as any other
> distro? Is its choice and/or support for development tools
> better/worse? Is there any advantage or disadvantage to Ubuntu
> compared to XYZ distro specifically for developers?
>
> I can imagine a mindset including "99% of our target market don't care
> about compilers or linkers, so let's shove development tools somewhere
> into 'extras' and not even offer to install them out of the box, let's
> not update them as often as, say, browsers or email apps or multitouch
> drivers, etc.". I am not saying this is Ubuntu's mindset. I don't
> know, and I'll be happy to hear opinions.
>
> --
> Oleg Goldshmidt | pub at goldshmidt.org
>



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Orna Agmon Ben-Yehuda.
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