Linux development tools

only standard web apps: html, xml, asp, php, cfs and the like. all possible variants included. Not all developed apps will run on linux servers, but that shouldn't be relevant, test environments are ftp accessible.

Syntax extensions shouldn't be a major problem if we're talking opensource and it's already present. The interesting part is class management and WYSIWYG.

Anyway, if there are several possibilities, I'll try them all and judge what. If there's a site with comprehensive listings of linux only development environments, that works ok as well.

As far as I know, there aren't any good WYSIWYG tools for web development on the *nix platform. I can't even name one.

Eclipse is cool, but it's more of a code editor than a WYWIWYG tool.

Weeell, might be partly my fault. You see, last time I used Linux, you had to recompile everything if you wanted to get past the lilo boot prompt. So I'm used to pretty much do things as I want. I read in redhat that v9 was their latest free stable release, so I went for that one instead of Fedora, cause if it works, the machine will be production. Of course I don't see the point in paying for linux, in that case I'd rather stay with MS, so the enterprise version was excluded.

The thing is, I was wrong. v9 is somewhat dead, and the new KDE and the likes won't install over it. I now have a mixed Fedora core 1/Redhat v9 install... where KDE seems to hiccup every now and then.

Since the latest Quanta thing will work only on the latest KDE... you see the problem, right? Now I'm DLing the whole Fedora core 1 release, and will see what I can do with that.

Well, I'd say with Windows you install everything and it runs and you don't know what the hell's going on inside (I remember when they started to seriously use the registry with Win95... nobody knew how that worked). With linux, either you learn from the start how everything works, or you won't be able to do anything done

I've stumbled into a couple of very nice tools, though, that serve to ease the pain of package dependency checking when updating one package:

I'd add the GUI Sinaptic to that, but that's a very nice tool that checks repositories and updates all necessary packages... when possible, that is

I'll check Eclipse as well. The WYSIWYG part is important to me only because I can easily move around to find the controls I need to change.

If you're not afraid for a little manual work during the installation process, do as Kennel says and try Gentoo. Their packet system is very easy to use and they seem to have recent version of almost all their pakages.

That really sounds like a long time, I don't remember how long time it took to compile 2.6 on my 2500+ but with Linux 2.4 it takes about 5-10min. On my P75 Linux 2.4 took around 1-2 hours.

Not sure on the kernel compile, but here's what I got on other fronts.

Package dependencied are similar to the .dll hell in the good 'ol days of windows. Gentoo is by far the best for its BSD stlye port system.

As for a gui, KDE is a grahics, and memory hog. It bogs down my system. I run GNOME when need to do some hard core crap, but for daily usage, I use fluxbox, by Far the best out there.

Actually, someone ported blackbox to work as your windows shell.

http://www.desktopian.org/bb/

Have fun!

Edit: Now that I search, there are a couple of them out there.

Haha, glad you like!