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How to test drive development using Linux
The document provides a guide for test driving the Ubuntu Linux distribution using a USB thumb drive, highlighting essential setup steps, including formatting the thumb drive, installing native graphics drivers, and setting up a development environment. It discusses the advantages of persistent storage for saving configurations and applications as well as the use of various utilities and applications like Wine, OpenOffice, and Eclipse. However, it also notes potential drawbacks, such as compatibility issues with certain software and the challenge of adapting to a Unix-based system.
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- 1. How to testdrive development using Linux Cardell Rice
- 2. Choose a LinuxDistribution The Ubuntu distribution was selected because of its popularity and community support. Ease of setup 1
- 3. Can’t use oldcomputer The computer has to have a CD Burner because the Ubuntu Linux distribution comes as an ISO image The computer has to be able to boot from both a CD and USB thumb drive. 2
- 4. Can’t use oldcomputer While Linux is suitable to run on older computers we are going to boot and run from a USB thumb drive Using a thumb drive will allow us to test drive the Linux OS without disturbing our current home or work Windows installation. 3
- 5. Thumb Drive OSSetup Format the thumb drive Fat32 Boot from the Ubuntu CD and insert the thumb drive. 4
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- 7. Thumb Drive OSSetup Ubuntu Linux will use the Casper utility to allow persistent storage on the thumb drive This will allow saving system configuration information, software application and drivers 6
- 8. Native graphics driversMost newer motherboards with built in graphics use Nvidia or Ati hardware The Ubuntu site has drivers for both of these manufacturers 7
- 9. Other native graphicsdrivers Most other graphic card manufacturers support Linux and drivers can be found on there websites The reason for installing a native driver is faster GUI response and OpenGL 8
- 10. Install native graphicsdriver Download the graphics driver from the manufactures website and install from the command line Install the graphics driver using the Synaptic Package Manager 9
- 11. Applications Open Officethat comes with the distribution has a word processor, spreadsheet and power point utility You can create files compatible with MS Office versions 97/2000/XP 10
- 12. Wine Stands for(Win)dows (E)mulator Used to emulate both 16 and 32 bit widows applications Wine will run versions 6,6.5, and 7 of Lotus Notes 11
- 13. Wine Wine willrun versions 5,6, and 7 of IE Wine will run Office 2007 12
- 14. Setup Development environmentInstall and configure Sun Java SDK as GNU java in installed by default Install Maven Install CVS/Subversion 13
- 15. IDE’s Install Ubuntucompatible Eclipse 3.2 which is downloaded from the Ubuntu repository Install Netbeans 6.7 from Sun Install Flex Builder for Linux from Adobe 14
- 16. Utilities VPN setupfor linux OS information available on mapped network drives. Remote login built into Ubuntu distribution allows remote login to and from Linux systems. 15
- 17. Remote Login NXServerutility can be used to allow remote login from Windows to Linux XWinLogon utility can also be used to allow remote login from Windows to Linux 16
- 18. Web and ApplicationServers Jboss Tomcat WebLogic Apache 17
- 19. LAMP “ LAMP”,which stands for “Linux+Apache+MySQL+PHP” 18
- 20. Pros Persistent storageallows software and configuration to be saved Easy way to test drive linux on multiple computers. More efficient use of computer resources 19
- 21. Cons No easyway of testing using Safari Likely use of older versions of Eclipse IDE Getting familiar with the Unix OS 20
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